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Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s most important stories. Canadian Real Estate Moody’s Doubles Down On Forecast Of Canadian Real Estate Prices Falling Soon One of the world’s largest credit rating agencies confirmed an early forecast of falling home prices in Canada. Moody’s had expected government measures would delay any impact to home […]
Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s most important stories. Canadian Real Estate Canadian Homebuyers With Small Down Payments Grows For The First Time In Years Insured mortgage credit, for those with smaller down payments, increased for the first time in years. The balance of insured mortgages reached $476.53 billion in Q2 2020, up […]
Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s most important stories. Canadian Real Estate Understanding Pent-Up Demand In Real Estate, And How Central Banks Broke Markets Pent-up demand is a temporary rise in consumer buying, after a period of restraint. It normally appears at the end of a recession, but not this time. During recessions, […]
Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s most important stories. Canadian Real Estate Canada’s Big Six Banks Set Aside Over $6 Billion For Credit Losses Canada’s Big Six banks have set aside billions of cash to prepare for losses on loans. Provisions for credit losses (PCLs) reached $6.76 billion in Q3 2020 at the […]
Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s most important stories. Canadian Real Estate Bank Of Canada’s Mortgage Buying Is A Quarter The Size Of New Mortgage Credit Canada’s central bank kicked into action during the pandemic… by flooding the mortgage market with cheap cash. The central bank held $513 million worth of CMBs in […]
Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s most important stories. Canadian Real Estate Here’s What Canada’s Mortgage Deferral Cliff Looks Like, And Why Experts Are Worried Canadians suffering income losses had their mortgage payments deferred, but those deferrals are about to expire. During the pandemic, the government worked with banks to delay payments for […]
Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s most important stories. Canadian Real Estate Canada Doubled Down On Real Estate In 2005. Now It’s The Biggest Bubble The G7 Has Ever Seen, And It’s Getting Bigger Canadian real estate prices have grown rapidly, but it’s not clear how much more rapidly it grew than its […]
Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s most important stories. Canadian Real Estate CMHC: Toronto And Vancouver Real Estate Delinquencies Rise, While The Rest Of Canada Falls Toronto and Vancouver mortgage delinquencies are rising, while the rest of the country falls. The national rate of delinquencies reached 0.29% in Q1 2020, down 3.3% from […]
Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s most important stories. Canadian Real Estate Bank Of Canada Pumping Billions Into Mortgage Liquidity To Prop Up Real Estate Canada’s central bank has pumped billions into the mortgage market, in attempt to prop it up. As of July 22, the Bank of Canada held $7.95 billion in […]
Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s most important stories. Canadian Real Estate Canadians Are Deferring Mortgage Payments At 2x The Rate Of Americans Canadians are taking advantage of mortgage payment deferrals at a much higher rate than Americans. Canadian banks have about 16% of mortgages on payment deferral, a steady climb since the […]
