In a sign that builders seem to see an end to the current housing boom land sales have dropped off in the first half of this year.
Land investment is down 51% in Toronto, 30% in Vancouver and 52% in Calgary compared to the same period last year.
Richard Vilner puts it this way in the Financial Post:
“The slowdown began to happen in mid-2012. There was a big time slow down versus those robust two years pre-slowdown. The cranes you are seeing now are for residential land deals that closed a couple of years ago.”
There’s still a lot of land in the pipeline though, condos will be going up in those cities for some time yet even if no more land changes hands.
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