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The TRREB Beginnings:
1920–1945

Toronto’s Resilient Housing Market

Two months after the stock market crash on October 29, 1929, Toronto real estate rebounded. It is a continuing story in Toronto real estate. Despite the crises and hardship – wars, Hurricane Hazel, recessions, skyrocketing interest rates, pandemics – the Toronto housing market has been resilient. For much of the past 100 years, Toronto has been in growth mode with market forces driving values ever higher. Some of the larger real estate projects that were completed in the 1930s – Maple Leaf Gardens, Canada Life Building and College Park – remain today as important landmarks in Toronto.  

Did you know?

  • In 1923, thirty delegates from TRREB visited Cleveland for the international convention of the National Association of Real Estate Boards. At that time, 16 Canadian boards had a total membership of 421 people (The Globe, June 22, 1923)

1929, newspaper article, Toronto Daily Star