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The Greater Toronto detached real estate market is buzzing once again. Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB) numbers show sales made a big jump in September. Sales volumes aren’t back to boom time levels, but the increase was enough to raise prices. Most of the gains are in the 905, which is seeing much higher price […]
Time for your weekly cheat sheet on this week’s most important stories. Canadian Real Estate The IMF Crunched Numbers On Canadian Real Estate. Here’s How Overpriced It Is IMF calculations show some Canadian real estate prices are detached from reality. Toronto real estate prices are 54.7% higher than fundamentals warrant. Vancouver is a little better, […]
Time for your weekly cheat sheet on this week’s most important stories. Canadian Real Estate Canada’s Heavy Immigration Is The Last Pillar Preventing A Recession Canada’s economy looks like it’s booming, but it’s not all that impressive when immigration is factored in. Real gross domestic product (GDP) per capita hit $55,480 in Q2 2019, up […]
Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s top stories. Canadian Election 2019 Canadian Politicians Promise To Bring More Risk To Housing: Part One, The Liberals The Liberals promise to increase the first-time home buyer incentive (FTHBI), in Toronto, Vancouver, and Victoria. Previous limits were designed to prevent homebuyers from inflating those very markets. However, […]
Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s most important stories. Canadian Real Estate Canada’s Richest Households Are Seeing Income Grow 6x Faster Than The Bottom 99% The gap between Canada’s wealthiest households, and the rest of the country is getting wider – and fast. To be in Canada’s one-percent, you need to earn at […]
Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s most important stories. Canadian Real Estate Canadian Real Estate Prices Reach A New All-Time High Ahead Of Government Cash Canadian real estate price growth has stopped decelerating, at least for now. The C11, a price index for Canada’s 11 largest markets, showed an increase of 0.41% in […]
Time for your weekly cheat sheet on this week’s most important stories. Canadian Real Estate StatCan: Canadian New Home Prices Fall The Most Since 2009 Canadian new home prices are sliding, according to Statistics Canada. The national New Home Price Index (NHPI) fell 0.1% in July, when compared to a month before. This represents a […]
Canadian seniors are slowing down on the equity binge, but they’re still tapping quite a bit. Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI) filings show reverse mortgage debt reached a new high in June. Canadian reverse mortgage debt is decelerating in growth, but is still one of the fastest growing segments of debt. Reverse […]
Time for your weekly cheat sheet on this week’s most important stories. Canadian Real Estate Odd: Canadian Mortgage Credit Growth Is Rising, While Consumer Growth Falls Household credit growth is picking up from earlier this year, but still below last year’s levels. The balance of credit outstanding hit $2.22 trillion in July, up 3.6% from […]
Greater Vancouver real estate is improving, but it’s not even close to normal yet. Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver (REBGV) numbers show a big climb in sales in August. The rise in sales was met with a jump in inventory though, offsetting most of the improvement. The region continued to see falling prices, with […]
