{"id":1197,"date":"2026-02-28T09:01:32","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T14:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.realestategtatoday.ca\/index.php\/2026\/02\/28\/gta-housing-faces-a-cusma-crossroads-this-summer\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T09:01:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T14:01:32","slug":"gta-housing-faces-a-cusma-crossroads-this-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realestategtatoday.ca\/index.php\/2026\/02\/28\/gta-housing-faces-a-cusma-crossroads-this-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"GTA Housing Faces a CUSMA Crossroads This Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Greater Toronto Area’s housing market could be at a pivotal moment this summer, hinging on the outcome of the Canada-US-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) review. Economists suggest that if the review goes poorly, the existing tariffs could be widened, plunging the economy into uncertainty. Conversely, a positive outcome could boost buyer confidence, particularly among first-time homebuyers who have been sidelined. While interest rates have decreased and home prices are down almost 10%, Toronto’s condo market continues to struggle with a glut of new units. The CUSMA review’s impact could determine whether the GTA sees an uptick in housing activity in the second half of the year. For a deeper dive into the potential impacts, read the full article on mpamag.com.<\/p>\n

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GTA’s housing market hinges on upcoming CUSMA review. A positive outcome could boost buyer confidence, while failure could widen tariffs and uncertainty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1196,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[178,206],"tags":[415,463,182,215,414,207],"class_list":["post-1197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-market-data","category-residential","tag-cusma","tag-economy","tag-gta","tag-housing-market","tag-tariffs","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realestategtatoday.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realestategtatoday.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realestategtatoday.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realestategtatoday.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realestategtatoday.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.realestategtatoday.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realestategtatoday.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realestategtatoday.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realestategtatoday.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realestategtatoday.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}