{"id":33760,"date":"2025-12-29T01:03:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T09:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/news-roundup-for-december-18-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T01:03:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T09:03:18","slug":"news-roundup-for-december-18-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/news-roundup-for-december-18-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"News Roundup for December 18, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"article_body\">\n<p data-pm-slice=\"0 0 []\">Condo industry expects worst year on record \u2014 with only 165 new condos selling in Toronto area last month; City Council approves hike in land transfer tax for luxury homebuyers; Mayor Chow says Eglinton Crosstown LRT won\u2019t open within next month; and other news.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/real-estate\/condo-industry-expects-worst-year-on-record-with-only-165-new-condos-selling-in-toronto\/article_e2d368b2-78db-4bcd-8617-2143e5db7306.html\" target=\"_blank\">Condo industry expects worst year on record \u2014 with only 165 new condos selling in Toronto area last month<\/a> (The Star)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/toronto\/toronto-luxury-homes-land-transfer-tax-increase-approved-city-council-9.7020160\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto city council approves hike in land transfer tax for luxury homebuyers<\/a> (CBC)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11581823\/eglinton-crosstown-lrt-january-update-promised\/\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto mayor says Eglinton Crosstown LRT won\u2019t open within next month<\/a> (Global News)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/toronto.citynews.ca\/2025\/12\/18\/high-speed-rail-canada-latest-big-story-podcast\/\" target=\"_blank\">How long until Canada sees a high-speed rail come to life?<\/a> (CityNews)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/gta\/toronto-council-december\/article_4f4d958c-f5e3-4e7a-b5fc-1dd828e451be.html\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto city council: hiking luxury home tax, reining in e-bikes and a TTC money-back guarantee<\/a> (The Star)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/toronto.citynews.ca\/2025\/12\/17\/ford-government-says-potential-lake-ontario-sewage-overflow-unrelated-to-ontario-place-construction\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ford government says potential Lake Ontario sewage overflow \u2018unrelated\u2019 to Ontario Place construction<\/a> (CityNews)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/gta\/toronto-councillors-want-e-bikes-e-scooters-off-the-sidewalk-now-staff-just-need-to\/article_2678dbe2-9768-4ad1-a5c3-20281ad39f64.html\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto councillors want e-bikes, e-scooters off the sidewalk. Now, staff just need to figure out how to make it happen<\/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\/12\/news-roundup-december-18-2025.60076\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Condo industry expects worst year on record \u2014 with only 165 new condos selling in Toronto area last month; &#8230; <a title=\"News Roundup for December 18, 2025\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/news-roundup-for-december-18-2025\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about News Roundup for December 18, 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-33760","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\/33760","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=33760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}