A sold-out three-tower high-rise condominium project that promised to deliver units to the new Vaughan Metropolitan Centre is the latest in a string of cancelled condo projects, leaving more than 1,100 hopeful buyers in limbo.

Cosmos Condominiums was announced by Liberty Development Corporation in 2013, began pre-selling condo contracts in 2016 and was supposed to start delivering units in 2019. This week, buyers received letters from Liberty saying the project was “challenged” by “unsatisfactory financing terms” and cited early cancellation language in the contracts and said it would return buyer’s deposits.

At the time of its pre-sale offering period, Liberty sold 780 units in the first two towers in 25 days, according to real estate analysts at Altus Group. The project was later described as “sold out” of its 1,153 units on the company’s web pages, which have since been taken down.

It’s at least the ninth condo project to cancel in the last year in the Greater Toronto Area, well above the typical yearly average, according to condominium analysts at Urbanation. It’s also one of the largest developments in the region to vanish, compared with the 68-unit Kennedy Gardens in Scarborough (cancelled in January) or the 168-unit Museum Flats building (cancelled in October, 2017) in Toronto.

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