Author: Javed Noor

The perfect opportunity to embrace your inner "foodie" and unbutton your pants at the dinner table!In Canada, post-Thanksgiving is all about creative cranberry sauce solutions. Cranberry sauce pancakes, anyone?It's that time when multiple ovens are a blessing. Turkey, pies, casseroles – less stress!

Canadian borrowers could continue facing affordability pressure as borrowing costs remain elevated and economic uncertainty shapes the housing market.
Rate relief could improve affordability, but its impact will depend on inflation, economic conditions, and the Bank of Canada’s policy path.
Buyers may remain cautious, while higher financing costs continue influencing purchasing power, refinancing decisions, and overall housing demand.
For borrowers and investors, planning around current financing conditions remains important rather than relying entirely on future rate declines.

Oakville — Most Affordable homes for September 2026.

Listings (sorted by price):
1. Listing 40852876 — $349,900
2. Listing W13421514 — $389,900
3. Listing 40865374 — $399,000
4. Listing W13720752 — $399,000
5. Listing W13737818 — $399,000
6. Listing W13811940 — $399,000
7. Listing 40863934 — $399,900
8. Listing 40867240 — $399,900
9. Listing W13793996 — $399,900
10. Listing W13799562 — $399,900
11. Listing W13832580 — $399,900
12. Listing W13838262 — $399,900
13. Listing 40859992 — $399,999
14. Listing W13700864 — $399,999
15. Listing W13738992 — $399,999

Toronto — Most Expensive homes for September 2026.

Listings (sorted by price):
1. Listing C13780934 — $22,500,000
2. Listing C13475538 — $21,995,000
3. Listing C13619112 — $17,995,000
4. Listing C13732176 — $17,200,000
5. Listing C13525554 — $16,500,000
6. Listing C13693884 — $14,880,000
7. Listing C13752980 — $13,500,000
8. Listing C13816180 — $12,995,000
9. Listing C13764668 — $12,880,000
10. Listing C13227720 — $12,500,000
11. Listing C13142106 — $12,295,000
12. Listing 40826557 — $11,995,000
13. Listing C13092402 — $11,995,000
14. Listing C13640040 — $11,995,000
15. Listing C13763100 — $11,995,000

Oakville was named one of Canada's best business investment locations after attracting >$3B and creating ~1.9K jobs in recent years across local projects.
A multi-billion-dollar retooling at a local assembly complex stood out among major investments, alongside projects valued at $23M, $10M, $10M and $9M.
Oakville's project list ranged from a large assembly retooling to smaller company expansions, with one employer alone adding 50 jobs in town.
The recognition placed Oakville alongside leading investment destinations across Canada, highlighting the town among communities attracting business expansion and quality jobs nationally.
The annual ranking used 2025-26 project data, weighing corporate facility activity, capital investment and job creation behind Oakville's latest national investment recognition.

In a recent Toronto deal, buyers wrote a personal note, yet sellers still chose them mainly because they submitted the highest bid.
That shift reflects Toronto’s weaker market: fewer bids on homes, almost no multiple offers on condos, and less need for emotional tie-breakers.
In Toronto’s past hotter market, a letter could help when offers matched, especially after heavy showings and crowded offer nights created intense competition.
Now, a Toronto listing agent’s priority is straightforward: choose the strongest price, because most sellers won’t trade money for a heartfelt buyer story.
For Toronto buyers today, solid offers matter more than love letters, with stronger deposits, fewer conditions, or flexible timing helping show real commitment.

A housing analysis mapped median sale prices near ~70 transit stations across the GTA and found a $1.7M gap between cheapest and priciest nearby neighbourhoods.
Among 65 stations analyzed for single-family homes, 36 landed below the GTA-wide median of $1.1M. For condos, 34 stations stayed under $615K.
In the GTA, Malton condos posted the sharpest cited pullback, ↓26% to $503K in 2025, highlighting renewal and refinance pressure in some corridors.
At the higher end, a North York station reached the network's top single-family median at $2.15M, while Mississauga's Port Credit led condos at $771.5K.
Overall, transit-adjacent condos held up better than the broader GTA condo market in 2025, while station-level differences helped pinpoint affordability and valuation risk.

In Mid-Q3, just 2% of qualifying GTA neighbourhoods landed in overbidding territory, versus 3% in Early-Q3, signaling softer buyer competition across the market.
Among 267 qualifying GTA neighbourhoods, 97% were underbid and 1% sold at asking in Mid-Q3, showing bidding wars were rare across GTA.
The condo and single-family gap kept narrowing: 95% of neighbourhoods with enough single-family sales were underbid, versus 98% of qualifying condo neighbourhoods.
An economist said Mid-Q3 had been one of GTA Real Estate’s quietest periods, and recently that pattern meant less competition for buyers.
Across 4.2K GTA homes sold in Mid-Q3, 79% changed hands below asking, versus 78% in Early-Q3, as single-family homes stopped bucking softer demand.