{"id":43,"date":"2026-10-22T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/sajhomes-ca\/2026\/10\/22\/gta-homebuyers-benefit-from-lower-prices-and-more-options\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T09:00:00","slug":"gta-homebuyers-benefit-from-lower-prices-and-more-options","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sajhomes.ca\/blog\/2026\/10\/22\/gta-homebuyers-benefit-from-lower-prices-and-more-options\/","title":{"rendered":"GTA Homebuyers Benefit from Lower Prices and More Options"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>Home sales in the Greater Toronto Area fell 9% year-over-year in September, totaling 5,040, while the average selling price dropped to $1,006,409 from $1,060,036. The composite benchmark price declined 4.7%. Economic uncertainty, inflation, borrowing costs, and geopolitical tensions have dampened buyer activity. New listings also decreased by 14.4% to 16,500. Upcoming municipal elections may impact housing policies and market confidence.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/toronto\/gta-home-sales-down-september-average-prices-declined-9.7371249\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home sales in the Greater Toronto Area fell 9% year-over-year in September, totaling 5,040, while the average selling price dropped to $1,006,409 from $1,060,036. The composite benchmark price declined 4.7%. Economic uncertainty, inflation, borrowing costs, and geopolitical tensions have dampened buyer activity. New listings also decreased by 14.4% to 16,500. Upcoming municipal elections may impact [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":527,"featured_media":44,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sajhomes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sajhomes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sajhomes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sajhomes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/527"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sajhomes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sajhomes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sajhomes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sajhomes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sajhomes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sajhomes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}