Realtors are suddenly abandoning Toronto's struggling real estate market

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For the first time in as long as monthly data has been available, the Toronto Regional Real Estate Board (TRREB) — the largest group of its kind in...

For the first time in as long as monthly data has been available, the Toronto Regional Real Estate Board — the largest group of its kind in Canada — has seen a drop in membership numbers, serving as just another indication of the trouble the market is in.

Selling homes has typically been an extremely lucrative profession in the city, with its insatiable demand, ever-higher prices and high commission cheques.Notable: first time YoY membership numbers have declined since I have monthly data . The last 3 months of 2021 the YoY net growth averaged 7,877 members. Bandwagon has lost a lot of steam.The TRREB stats were shared to X by member Scott Ingram late last month, who wrote that the board was down 1,363 realtors in July 2024 compared to the same time last year, marking the first time year-over-year membership had fallen since at least 2016.

Though this only represents around two per cent of the professional body's total, now at 73,315 agents and brokers, it appears to signify that the interest in the industry has"lost a lot of steam" — both from would-be buyers, based on the sales data, and also those on the inside.are just some other indications of how things are going in Toronto real estate right now. And still, our exorbitant prices will hardly budge.

 

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