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 GTA REALTORS^® RELEASE MONTHLY RESALE HOUSING FIGURES

TORONTO, October 5, 2015 -- Toronto Real Estate Board President Mark McLean announced that Greater Toronto Area REALTORS® reported a record number of transactions for the month of September through TREB’s MLS® System.  There was a combined 8,200 home sales reported for September 2015.  This result was up 2.5 per cent compared to September 2014.
TREB MLS® sales through the first nine months of 2015 amounted to 80,331, which also represented a record result and a 9.5 per cent increase compared to the first three quarters of 2014.
“We are on track for record home sales reported through TREB’s MLS® System this year.  Barring a drastic shift in the economy over the next three months, total transactions reported by TREB Members in 2015 are expected to be at or near the 100,000 mark.  This is a testament to the importance that GTA households put on home ownership as a long-term investment,” said Mr. McLean.
The MLS® Home Price Index (HPI) Composite Benchmark Price was up by 10.5 per cent year over year.  The average selling price for all home types combined was also up by 9.2 per cent annually to $627,395.  Growth in the MLS® HPI Composite Benchmark and the average price was driven by the low-rise market segments, including detached and semi-detached houses and townhouses.
“While September was the second straight month where annual growth in new listings outstripped annual growth sales, total active listings at the end of the month still remained below last year’s level.  This, coupled with the record pace of sales experienced so far this year, suggests that competition between buyers will remain strong as we move into the fourth quarter.  Expect strong rates of price growth to continue through the remainder of 2015 and into 2016,” said Jason Mercer, TREB’s Director of Market Analysis.

Summary of TorontoMLS Sales and Average Price
September 1 - 30, 2015
	2015			2014
	Sales	Average Price	New Listings	Sales	Average Price	New Listings
City of Toronto ("416")	3,137	674,922	6,816	3,051	625,971	6,571
Rest of GTA ("905")	5,063	597,947	9,261	4,950	542,653	9,000
GTA	8,200	627,395	16,077	8,001	574,424	15,571

TorontoMLS Sales & Average Price  By Home Type
September 1 - 30, 2015
	Sales			Average Price
	416	905	Total	416	905	Total
Detached	1,051	2,827	3,878	1,053,871	732,852	819,853
Yr./Yr. % Change	0.0%	0.9%	0.7%	10.7%	11.6%	11.2%
Semi-Detached	318	523	841	740,373	497,775	589,506
Yr./Yr. % Change	1.9%	2.5%	2.3%	7.3%	11.1%	9.2%
Townhouse	300	984	1,284	527,257	448,930	467,231
Yr./Yr. % Change	2.0%	6.3%	5.2%	10.8%	9.6%	9.7%
Condo Apartment	1,444	608	2,052	418,603	307,295	385,623
Yr./Yr. % Change	5.6%	2.4%	4.6%	5.6%	2.2%	5.0%

	Composite (All Types)	Single-Family Detached	Single-Family Attached	Townhouse	Apartment
TREB Total	10.46%	12.01%	11.20%	9.85%	5.65%
Halton Region	9.39%	9.66%	9.77%	6.86%	-
Peel Region	9.68%	10.46%	10.94%	10.04%	3.26%
City of Toronto	8.62%	10.88%	8.54%	8.84%	5.95%
York Region	13.95%	14.73%	14.70%	12.30%	5.52%
Durham Region	13.51%	13.26%	14.71%	11.59%	11.58%
Orangeville	10.44%	11.24%	10.37%	-	-
South Simcoe County1	13.31%	12.54%	14.53%	-	-
Source: Toronto Real Estate Board
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Tips to Transform Your Bedroom with Color & Style

Interior Design 
 

Just because your bedroom is for sleeping, that doesn’t mean this spot should be drab and dull. Use our tips to infuse your sleeping quarters with beauty and style—and watch your home’s bedroom transform from ordinary to extraordinary.

Boost Bedroom Colors

If you keep your bedroom walls and furniture neutral, it’s easy to add brighter bursts of color whenever and wherever you wish. Pick one or two colors you love and then repeat the hues in vibrant artwork, bold bedding and colorful accents throughout your bedroom for an easy-to-do, fresh new look.

Try a Little Texture

Touch is a huge part of creating comfort in any part of your home—think comfy, soft pillows, fuzzy blankets and thick, lush bedding. In your bedroom, texture becomes a comfort you can feel at the end of the day. It’s easy to alter a bedroom’s texture with a change of linens—use a furry throw in winter and switch to a cotton throw in summer.
Textures can suit any taste. Here are a few to consider for your bedroom style:
—Traditional: Hand-tufted rugs, woven wools, tooled silver, cut crystal, gilded frames, silk, china and polished wood.
—Country: Braided rugs, worn wood, rusted metals, chenille spreads, ironstone pottery, blown glass and ticking.
—Romantic: Velvet, furry throws, crystal prisms, embroidered fabrics, lace, painted furniture and hand-hooked rugs.
—Modern: Laminated-plywood furniture, plastic, smooth leather, stainless steel, terrazzo flooring and teak.

Swap Out Pillows

Accent pillows let you quickly alter the personality of any room in your home and shift the balance of color. They’re especially powerful used in a bedroom because the bed is a natural focal point. Pillows can update a room instantly by adding volume, pattern, texture, color and personality.
In this homeowner’s bedroom, a subtle backdrop of cream and blue is brought into intense focus with a collection of lively pillows. Raspberry and sky-blue accent pillows pull the wall color and accent color together perfectly. Bold striped bolsters add variety and interest to the grouping.

Focus On Your Headboard

A dramatic headboard can add instant impact to a bedroom. You’ll find a wide variety of new headboards available at all price points, but consider customizing your existing headboard or using an unexpected salvaged piece for a unique, personalized option.
The homeowners of this bedroom upcycled a large salvaged door and gave it new life as a headboard. Its generous size provides a bonus by blocking light, creating a cozy, private retreat in this home’s bedroom.

Wow with Window Treatments

To set a mood in your bedroom, use draperies and classic swags for a formal look, curtains and shades for an informal look, and simple blinds for contemporary appeal. Consider lining—room-darkening or insulating—that suits the particular bedroom’s window treatment and your home’s needs.

Centralize Patterns

Try patterning a single wall or one section of a wall in your bedroom with a favorite wallpaper or stencil. It’s a sure-fire way to call attention to a seating area or to add pattern without taking the time to stencil an entire room.

Original & Unique Artwork

Your home’s bedroom is an ideal spot for displaying collections of personal photographs. Dressing a wall with objects you love is one way to surround yourself with memories. How you put them together defines your style. Test out various configurations for your artwork by cutting shapes from kraft paper and taping them on the bedroom wall first before hanging your collection.
For a quick-and-easy hanging solution, modify a piece of common molding to make a picture rail. Decorative golden picture hooks fitted with chain and rope display a mix of frames and add architectural interest to this homeowner’s bedroom. Use a circular link at the top of each chain to hang it over the hook.

Freshen Up with New Bed Linens

Nothing looks and feels fresher than new bedding. If you love the idea of new bedding but are short on storage space for bulky comforters and quilts, consider a duvet. You can even switch out the duvet cover every season—giving your bedroom mini makeovers throughout the year.

Let In the Light

General overhead lighting is less important in your home’s bedrooms. Instead focus on bedside lamps and other sources of accent lighting to turn a bedroom into an inviting, comforting retreat. And the type of light is important, too—something as simple as replacing an old lightbulb with a warm-spectrum fluorescent might provide just the freshness your bedroom needs.

Rearrange Bedroom Furnishings

To give your bedroom an easy, decorative makeover, angle the bed from a corner. If your present headboard looks too bulky for this arrangement, replace it with a salvaged iron gate or a shorter upholstered panel.

Get Creative with Closet Doors

In many bedrooms, closet doors take up a significant amount of wall space. Why not replace the bulky, utilitarian sliding doors with something you’ll enjoy waking up to every day?
These homeowners replaced their sliding closet doors with chic French doors. Mirrored panels hide closet clutter and give the bedroom more visual space.

Liven Up with Patterns

Pattern, like color, exerts an emotional pull that can jump-start a decorating style in any room. Whether you gravitate toward crisp stripes, bold florals or classic toile, patterns can be used to liven up your sleeping space.
Add a dash of pattern to an otherwise patternless bedroom by draping a quilt or duvet across the foot of the bed, as shown here. A bold, geometric pattern creates an instant focal point in the black-and-white room.

Make Over with Mix-and-Match Furnishings

A perfectly matched bedroom—the dresser goes with the bed and the corresponding nightstand, and bedding from the same collection—can become stale if the look is too uniform. Wake up a tired bedroom with an eclectic blend of fabrics and furnishings.

Add Design Details

Used in combination or alone, trim, molding and wainscoting offer nearly endless architectural design options. Depending on the style of your bedroom, the effect may be casual or formal, rustic or defined, traditional or contemporary. But in every case, millwork surface treatments can add charm and texture to a room.
In what started as a cookie-cutter bedroom, classic flat-panel wainscoting adds structural appeal to a long expanse of wall. Combined with the light wall color, the effect is subtle yet satisfying.

Don’t Forget the Ceiling

Here’s a quick and easy way to create a cozy feel in your home’s bedroom: paint the ceiling the same color as your walls. Without a visual break between ceiling and walls, the room feels smaller and more intimate.
Here, robin’s-egg blue creates a soothing backdrop for a serene, sophisticated retreat.

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