Welcome to the final days of 2025! We hope the holiday season finds you in good spirits and good health!
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Here is what you’ll find in our December 2025 E-Newsletter:
December’s Dear Urbaneer was entitled, ‘Dear Urbaneer: What Is Wellness Lighting Design, And Can It Really Improve Health At Home?‘ With the shortest days of the year in December, one reader is recognizing the link between lighting and mood, and wonders how interior design choices can help. The question reads: “Every winter, once the holiday lights come down, my home suddenly feels dark and heavy. I know that lighting affects how a space looks, but I am increasingly aware of how it also makes me feel. What’s the connection between lighting and mood, and how can I use lighting design in my home to feel better during the darker months?” Read on for his insight!
Steve and the Urbaneer Team post weekly blogs that share our love of all things real estate and that celebrate Toronto! Below are three of our most well-read posts this past month:
Our most well-read piece was: ‘Toronto Real Estate Reality Check: From Frenzy To Fatigue And The Hangover Of FOMO‘. At dinner tables around the GTA, the topic of real estate causes lips to pinch, eyebrows to furrow, or prompts someone to unwittingly sigh like air deflating from a balloon. The real estate bubble has burst, and it’s hitting many households hard. And there are ripple effects still to come. Along with evaporating equity, those working in construction and development, manufacturing and retailing, financial, insurance, and legal services, ancillary companies, as well as brokers and realtors – basically anyone who earns their living in the housing economy – are seeing their incomes drop, their anxiety increase, or the possibility of redundancy become plausible.
Toronto is where the weary, worried, and woeful own property. They are the real estate fatigued.
Take a peek!
Another popular piece was ‘Let’s Talk About The State Of The Toronto Condo Market’. Although interest rate cuts have brought the policy rate down to 2.25%, a level closer to the mid-2010s (around 3-4.5%), but still higher than the record lows of the 2020s (e.g., 2.79% in 2021), the Toronto real estate market hasn’t had much of a heartbeat, with 2025 poised to be one of the worst in two decades. Since 2021, when prices peaked and a record number of properties sold, the real estate industry has been running on fumes, generating just over 50% of its 2021 income each of the last 4 years. The reason lay squarely at the feet of the second coming of Donald Trump as US President, whose combative nature, misguided love for tariffs, and desire to annex Canada as the 51st state prompted many Canadians to press pause on purchasing real estate and see whether our economy unravels, leaving the Toronto condo market in a precarious state.
We also had a great response to our blog, ‘The Brand New Oakwood Station On Toronto’s Eglinton LRT Line‘. It’s opening! The Eglinton Crosstown LRT will provide fast, reliable, and convenient transit by carrying passengers in dedicated right-of-way transit lanes separate from regular traffic. While slower than subways, LRT vehicles can carry more passengers than other above-ground transit systems. And they’re much faster than streetcars and buses! Since they’re in their final 30-day testing period, it’s anticipated that the Eglinton LRT could FINALLY open officially in January or February. And Toronto will immediately notice the difference. Major public transit infrastructure is the basis for urban growth, as we will experience along Eglinton, where use intensification will accommodate Toronto’s ever-growing population, with a transit line ready to serve.
And – for lovers of unique urban spaces – don’t miss our sensational Toronto real estate listed for sale or lease on our site for your consideration!
Browse the December 2025 E-Newsletter here!
We LOVE Toronto real estate!
Steven & The Urbaneer Team
Bosley Real Estate Ltd., Brokerage • (416) 322-8000
http://www.urbaneer.com • info@urbaneer.com
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