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Ontario Cottage Market Update

The cottage selling season is in full swing throughout Ontario and some clear trends are beginning to emerge. As we predicted in our Muskoka cottage forecast last year, waterfront listings have been steadily ramping up throughout the province. After bottoming out in April of 2022 with around 8300 units listed*…

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Muskoka Luxury Cottage Real Estate | Summer 2024 Update

Waterfront real estate in Muskoka has been trending downward for over a year, with one notable exception. Sales of luxury cottages, which peaked in mid-2021, began a steady decline until mid-2023 when they started to rebound. However, since March of this year, the decline has resumed and shows no signs…

Lake of Bays, Muskoka

Lake of Bays Real Estate Trends | Summer 2024

Always one of the most coveted areas of Muskoka to cottage in, Lake of Bays has seen a seismic shift in real estate. Starting in May of 2020 there was an meteoric rise in both sales volumes and prices which peaked exactly one year later. Since then, as you can…

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Muskoka Real Estate | 2024 Market Outlook for Cottages & Homes

I approach this topic with a sense of humility and caution, fully aware that making predictions about the real estate market is often seen as a risky endeavor. I don't intend for my words to carry undue weight, as I've always been skeptical of such prognostications. However, I do believe…

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BNN Interview with John Fincham: Pandemic cottage buyers struggling to sell

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Muskoka Real Estate Update | January 2024

The Lakelands Association of Realtors® released its January 2024 statistics and as we suspected it wasn't pretty. Keep in mind that the first quarter is generally very slow for both home and cottage sales so we won't get an accurate picture until the summer selling season begins. As well, the…

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Muskoka Real Estate – 2023 Year End Review

The data is all in from the Lakelands Association of Realtors® for 2023 for both waterfront and residential properties. We also have the numbers specifically for the Muskoka region including individual charts for Lake Joseph, Lake Rosseau, Lake Muskoka and Lake of Bays. It continues to clearly be a tale…

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Why Now Might not be the Time to Buy a Muskoka Cottage

A few weeks back, I wrote an in-depth article delving into the Muskoka cottage real estate market. The driving force behind this endeavor was straightforward: I aimed to equip our clients with actionable data, empowering them to make decisions based on facts rather than emotions. The process of buying or…

Lake Joseph, Muskoka

Muskoka Real Estate | October 2023 Update

Residential non-waterfront sales activity recorded through the MLS® System for the Lakelands region totaled 307 units in October 2023. This was a large decline of 16.3% from the same period in 2022. Residential non-waterfront sales were 40.6% below the five-year average and 40.6% below the 10-year average for the month…

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Muskoka Real Estate – September 2023 Update

In September 2023, the residential non-waterfront real estate market in the picturesque Muskoka region remained steady, with 354 units sold through the MLS® System. This figure mirrored the sales volume recorded during the same period in 2022. However, it's worth noting that residential non-waterfront sales were 32.7% below the five-year…

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