{"id":1405,"date":"2026-02-18T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mrhunter.ca\/blog\/?p=1405"},"modified":"2026-02-18T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T09:00:00","slug":"are-lower-rates-really-unlocking-toronto-housing-mrhunter-ca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrhunter.ca\/blog\/2026\/02\/are-lower-rates-really-unlocking-toronto-housing-mrhunter-ca\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Lower Rates Really Unlocking Toronto Housing? | MrHunter.ca"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-zmyer\">\n<div class=\"video-frame-zmyer\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\"\n                src=\"https:\/\/www.roomvu.com\/agent\/embed\/jarrett-hunter\/toronto-rate-cut-home\"\n                frameborder=\"0\"\n                allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"\n                allowfullscreen><br \/>\n        <\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"video-description-zmyer\">\n<p>Prices corrected ~25% since 2022, but slowly\u2014no panic, just hesitation.<br \/>\nJobs feel shakier, rates still high\u2014confidence matters more than affordability.<br \/>\nEven with lower rates, monthly payments remain 30% higher than pre-pandemic.<br \/>\nThe next price move won\u2019t be explosive\u2014it\u2019ll be quiet, slow, and selective.<br \/>\nThis isn\u2019t a crash\u2014it\u2019s a reset, rewarding patient buyers and realistic sellers.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prices corrected ~25% since 2022, but slowly\u2014no panic, just hesitation. Jobs feel shakier, rates still high\u2014confidence matters more than affordability. Even with lower rates, monthly payments remain 30% higher than pre-pandemic. The next price move won\u2019t be explosive\u2014it\u2019ll be quiet, slow, and selective. This isn\u2019t a crash\u2014it\u2019s a reset, rewarding patient buyers and realistic sellers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrhunter.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrhunter.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrhunter.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrhunter.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrhunter.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrhunter.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1407,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrhunter.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405\/revisions\/1407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrhunter.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrhunter.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrhunter.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrhunter.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}