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Ontario home sales are worse now than in the 1990s housing crash, province is asked to wave their portion of the HST fully to help

BILD is now calling on the federal government to expand its GST relief to all new home purchasers. But what can the provincial government do?

Published May 29, 2025 at 7:59pm

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Ontario home sales are worse now than in the 1990s housing crash, province is asked to wave their portion of the HST fully to help

PC MPP Rob Flack attends Question Period at Queen's Park in Toronto on Tuesday, May 13, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Cole Burston

New home sales in the GTA marked a seventh consecutive month of record all-time lows, and now it is worse than the 1990s housing crash, a report commissioned by BILD shows.

The 1990s housing crash lasted roughly from 1989 to 1996 at the bottom of the market there were six consecutive months of record low sales, and sales were around double what they are today, according to the Wednesday report from the Building Industry and Land Development Association’s (BILD).

It showed that only 310 new homes were sold across the GTA in April 2025. That’s down 72 per cent from the same month last year, and a staggering 89 per cent below the 10-year average of 2,750 sales for April.

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