Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s top stories. Canadian Real Estate Canadian Home Prices Back To 2016 Levels After Inflation, Still Out of Reach Canadian home prices rose—just not in real (inflation-adjusted) terms. BIS data shows home prices in Canada rose 0.78% in Q2 2026, the first increase in a year—though they remain […]
Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s top stories. Canadian Real Estate Canadians Still Leaving At Near Record Pace Echoing 90s “Brain Drain” Canada may be attracting immigrants, but it’s failing to keep its citizens and permanent residents (PRs). In Q2 2026, nearly 25,000 Canadians emigrated—permanently relocated to a new country—marking the third-highest outflow […]
Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s top stories. Canadian Real Estate Canada’s Plan To Fix Housing? Just Change What Affordable Means Back in 2023, the CMHC said that building 3.5 million homes could restore 2004 levels of affordability by 2030. It reiterated the plan a year later, right before the country’s population growth […]
Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s top stories. Canadian Real Estate Canadian Mortgage Rates Set To Rise As Lender Margins Collapse Canadian fixed-rate mortgages are set to surge as bond yields continue to rise. The Government of Canada bond yields jumped 15 basis points (bps) to 3.65% on Thursday, the highest since May […]
Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s top stories. Canadian Real Estate Canada’s Credit Crunch: Peak Homebuyer Defaults & Renter Insolvencies Soar Canadian households are cracking under the pressure of supersized debt loads. New data from TransUnion shows household debt hit $2.64 trillion in Q2 2026, up 4.6% from last year. The credit agency […]
Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s top stories. Canadian Real Estate Canada’s Real Estate Bubble: First-Time Buyers Need To Be Among Top Earners First-time home buyers need to be among the wealthiest households in Canada. That’s the take from new Statistics Canada (StatCan) data revealing their income. The agency’s data reveals these buyers […]
Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s top stories. Canadian Real Estate Bank of Canada Research Warns Rate Cuts Can Worsen Housing Affordability Bank of Canada (BoC) researchers studied the impact of rate cuts on housing. They found that rate cuts boost buying immediately, with demand rising for up to 24 months. New supply […]
Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s top stories. Canadian Real Estate Canada’s Foreign Investment Surge Isn’t Confidence, It’s A Looming Debt Crisis Canada has seen a surge in foreign investment, but is it the vote of confidence reported in the media? The 12-month sum of foreign investment hit $256 billion in May, its […]
Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s top stories. Canadian Real Estate Canada’s Fake GDP Growth: Fictitious Rents Add More Than Oil Fictitious rents are driving Canada’s recent GDP growth surprise, even more than energy prices. Nearly 25% of GDP growth in Q1 2026 came from imputed rent, compared to 15.1% from oil and […]
Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s top stories. Canadian Real Estate Canadian Real Estate Is The Fastest Falling In The G7, Remains Frothy Canadian real (inflation-adjusted) home prices fell 2.1% in Q4 2025, bringing the decline from their 2022 peak to 28.4%. The correction is the sharpest among G7 countries, after Canada led […]
