What’s a home worth in today’s market? It’s a guessing game that often goes wrong

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More than half of all Toronto area listings in January were taken down — evidence of a wild market where the right price is a mystery.

It was first listed for $1.059 million in the spring of 2022, just when the first cracks in Toronto’s red hot real estate market started to appear. Throughout the year it was terminated and re-listed three times for tens of thousands of dollars less, before finally selling for $835,000 earlier this month.is just one example of a recent trend that can make the selling experience seem like a version of the game show The Price is Right.

“If the sellers have the option to hold on or to rent it out or basically whether the storm, then they’re electing instead to terminate the listing or try to put it on to the rental market or sell at a better time,” Carney said. Nasma Ali, founder and realtor at One Group, said much of this is due to what’s called price discovery. Usually, a realtor advises clients to price their home similar to recent sales of comparable properties in the same neighbourhood. But with a changing market and so few sales overall, that has now become tricky.

 

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