Happy Holidays from Toronto Realty Blog! | Toronto Realty Blog

Seven days before Christmas and me still to write?

Wait…but you are still reading!

I would like to thank all the daily TRB readers for their continued support, readership, and contributions in the comments section over the past year, including, but certainly not limited to:

Derek, Ace Goodheart, Vancouver Keith, Marina, Anwar, Serge, Graham (of many names), Izzy Bedibida, Different David, Libertarian, Francesca, Steve, Milk Man, hoob, cyber, Jennifer, your_favourite_tenant, JG, Oscar Lutgardis, Lizard, TOPlanner, DAF, JF007, Geoffrey, Shawn, Marmota, Justin, anonymous, J, Karolina, JL, Crofty, Moonbeam!, Maureen, Gord McCormick, Quiet Bard, Ed, Andrew, London Agent, Mike, Alex, Toad, Sigruper, PattyM, Max, Kevin, Peter Dewar, Johnny Chase, Rick Michalski, RPG, TokyoTuds, Nobody, Jonathan C, Zelia, Bryan, Paully, Daniel, Laurie, Dana, Anne, Marty, Island Home Owner, TT…..and what happened to it Appraiser? I haven’t seen any comments since September. Should we send a search party?

Those last two blog posts were exhausting, folks!

I mean, it’s clearly my fault. And deep down I know that while my mother might settle for an odd 6,248-word read on a Monday morning, there’s a lot of skimming going on among the rest of the reading public.

Brevity has never been my strong point.

I wrote 97 blog posts this year, totaling over 217,000 words.

According to Google’s AI overview, a typical book consists of 70,000 – 100,000 words, so if you count yourself among the people who read each blog post in 2025, thanks for reading my two novels! 🙂

I had a lot of fun this year on Toronto Realty Blog, as well as covering Pick5 and The Last Honest Realtor.

As many of you know, I have stopped blogging three times a week to only twostarting in 2024. But this was so I could spend a little more time on the podcast, which contains a lot of the same information, opinions and market analysis, but in a different medium.

Last week I was walking down the street taking my kids sledding, and I could see into the window of this one house where an older gentleman was sitting in a chair.

The image is deeply ingrained in my brain.

He was reading the newspaper.

Folded in half, not quartered, spread over his right leg, which was folded over his left leg.

Glasses on the bridge of the nose, head tilted down.

Coffee, no doubt on a table to the right of his leather chair, but I couldn’t see it.

After about twenty seconds, the man opened the newspaper, folded it in mid-air, and began reading the other side of the page.

There’s almost one art form to the newspaper fold in the sky. A lost art form.

My daughter asked me, “Did you ever get the newspaper, Dad?”

I told her that I once did. When I lived in the city with Mom – before we got married – I had the newspaper delivered to my front door every morning and read it at the gym.

My daughter asked, “Didn’t they have the news on your phone at the time, Dad?”

Maybe.

I honestly don’t know anymore.

But me Doing I know that the way we seek out, view and absorb interesting news and information has changed dramatically in recent years, and I remain exceptionally grateful to the readers of Toronto Realty Blog who continue to come to this forum every day to talk about real estate.

2025 has been a wild ride in the real estate market!

When the annual figures are released in January, we will certainly see turnover reaching a millennium.lowsomewhere around 63,000. This is a little more than half from a record 122,000+ sales in 2021. I can’t think of a better way to explain how the real estate market and industry has changed in just four years, and the effect this is having on market participants.

Many of the same themes will be repeated in 2026.

Prices.

Sale.

The death of the condo industry before construction.

Discussions about ‘building more houses’ at every level of government.

What about? affordability?

That’s a moving target, as the definition of “affordable” seems to change every year.

But one thing is certain: the residents of this city will never get tired of talking about real estate. If it was ever going to happen, it would have happened by now.

This also means that there are never enough things to talk about here on Toronto Realty Blog, in case you’re worried!

I’m looking forward to some rest during the holidays.

We order Chinese food at home on Christmas Eve and receive my mother and sister.

On Christmas morning I always make a feast of pancakes, waffles, bacon, sausage and eggs. The kids barely touch it, but I’ve always been aware of a basic 8,000 calorie breakfast on a day when you sit around and do nothing…

On Christmas Eve we go to my mother’s house, where she plans to make a turkey for the first time in twenty years.

And on Boxing Day we go to my dad’s for a meal to be determined (but I’m assuming it’s turkey?) and I see my brother and his family, who are coming from Europe.

A lot of of the family time ahead!

And in between I assume that the children will get along, part their stuff, and won’t fight at all.

I believe this is called a “Christmas Miracle” in some circles.

The world is complicated. Everyone’s life is busy. Time flies by.

So we hope you spend as much time with it as possible your friends and family during the holidays!

I wish you health, happiness, laughter and love.

See you in 2026!

David.