Greater Toronto Area home sales up 7% in April as prices shrink: real estate board
Posted on: May 05, 2026 18:24 IST | Posted by: Cbc
place sales in the Greater Toronto country rosebush on a year-over-year base for the indorse straight month in April, while average selling prices moved lower again.
The Toronto Regional Real Estate Board (TRREB) says 5,946 homes were sold last month, up seven per cent from the same month last year, while sales also increased 6.1 per cent on a seasonally adjusted basis from March.
TRREB chief information officer Jason Mercer says lower home prices and borrowing costs over the past year "have been a catalyst for some homebuyers this spring," but the market still has a substantial amount of pent-up demand.
The average selling price was down 4.9 per cent from April 2025 to $1,051,969, and the composite benchmark price, meant to represent the typical home, was down 6.6 per cent year-over-year.
There were 17,097 new listings on the market in April, down 9.3 per cent from last year.
Inventory decreased 6.4 per cent as there were 25,110 total active listings in the GTA.
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