One interest rate cut won’t be enough to lift Ontario’s battered cottage market

Realtors say Ontario cottage sellers are still trying to cash in on pandemic-era prices, even though housing values have plummeted.this week will do little to lift Ontario’s struggling cottage market, as sellers and buyers remain widely in disagreement about the value of waterfront properties after their pandemic boom and bust.

Today, realtors say sellers are still trying to cash in on pandemic-era prices, even though housing values have plummeted by as much asare still firmly in a buyer’s market, and it’ll take at least one more rate cut before those buyers will even consider coming off the sidelines. The inflated prices that many owners are listing their cottages at only make matters worse.

John Fincham, a real estate broker with Re/Max Parry Sound Muskoka Realty, said he expects the market won’t pick up until the Bank of Canada’s interest rate drops another 75 basis points to 4 per cent.

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