{"id":29006,"date":"2025-02-09T13:24:57","date_gmt":"2025-02-09T21:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/news-roundup-for-february-6-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-02-09T13:24:57","modified_gmt":"2025-02-09T21:24:57","slug":"news-roundup-for-february-6-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/news-roundup-for-february-6-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"News Roundup for February 6, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"article_body\">\n<p data-pm-slice=\"0 0 []\">Tariff threat, recession fears will slow Toronto\u2019s real estate market, experts say; Ontario&#8217;s housing outlook seems bleak, but here&#8217;s how the major parties plan to jumpstart construction; Toronto home sales expected to rise 12% this year, but board says January saw drop; and other news.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/real-estate\/tariff-threat-recession-fears-will-slow-torontos-real-estate-market-experts-say\/article_07f1508c-e30a-11ef-ad49-07c74c986e6c.html\" target=\"_blank\">Tariff threat, recession fears will slow Toronto\u2019s real estate market, experts say<\/a> (The Star)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/toronto\/housing-ontario-election-pcs-ndp-liberals-greens-1.7451277\" target=\"_blank\">Ontario&#8217;s housing outlook seems bleak. Here&#8217;s how the major parties plan to jumpstart construction<\/a> (CBC)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11004630\/toronto-home-sales-january-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto home sales expected to rise 12% this year, but board says January saw drop<\/a> (Global News)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/business\/buyers-market-toronto-area-january-home-sales-down-nearly-8-per-cent-year-over-year\/article_2278123a-e3d0-11ef-9fee-73615408b003.html\" target=\"_blank\">Buyers\u2019 market: Toronto-area January home sales down nearly 8 per cent year-over-year as prices creep up<\/a> (The Star)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/business\/article-toronto-home-sales-rose-in-january-but-tariff-threat-could-curb\/\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto home sales rose in January, but tariff threat could curb housing market in 2025<\/a> (The Globe and Mail)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/gta\/metrolinx-forced-him-out-of-his-1-400-a-month-home-to-make-way-for\/article_bbc8489e-e243-11ef-923b-ab48552bd113.html\" target=\"_blank\">Metrolinx forced him out of his $1,400-a-month home to make way for a new Ontario Line station. Now he\u2019s paying almost double \u2014 and he won\u2019t be the only one, the city warns<\/a> (The Star)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\nn.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\ndocument,'script','\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');<\/p>\n<p>fbq('init', '1760257484204295');\nfbq('track', \"PageView\");<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/urbantoronto.ca\/news\/2025\/02\/news-roundup-february-6-2025.57923\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Tariff threat, recession fears will slow Toronto\u2019s real estate market, experts say; Ontario&#8217;s housing outlook seems bleak, but here&#8217;s &#8230; <a title=\"News Roundup for February 6, 2025\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/news-roundup-for-february-6-2025\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about News Roundup for February 6, 2025\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1088],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-urban-toronto","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}