Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s top stories. Canadian Real Estate Canada’s Real Estate Correction Is Now The Largest In History The Canadian real estate correction is now the largest in history, according to BIS data. Data from the organization known as the “central bank for central banks” shows Canadian home prices have […]
Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s top stories. Canadian Real Estate Canadian Affordability Best In 4 Years, Still At 90s Bubble Levels: RBC Canadian housing affordability is the best it’s been in the past 4 years, but that’s not as great as it sounds. RBC estimates a median household needs to spend 53% […]
Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s top stories. Canadian Real Estate Canadian Mortgage Arrears Hit 12-Year High, Banks See 2020 Boom Wiped Out The country’s largest banks are seeing more overleveraged borrowers fall behind. The arrears rate rose to 0.28% in April, doubling since September 2022 to a 9-year high for the rate. […]
Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s top stories. Canadian Real Estate Canadians Are Leaving At The Fastest Pace In 74 Years Canadians are leaving the country at a pace unseen in 74 years of StatCan data. An estimated 30,092 citizens or permanent residents left in Q1 2026—the largest Q1 outflow on record. It’s […]
Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s top stories. Canadian Real Estate Canadian Insolvencies Surge To Second-Highest Level On Record Canadians filed 13,010 insolvencies in April, a 17-year high for the month, only surpassed by April 2009. Consumers drove the growth with 12,580 of those filings, 8% higher than the amount last year. Business […]
Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s top stories. Canadian Real Estate Canada Taps Leveraged Hedge Funds For Over 40% of New Debt, Warns BoC Canada’s central bank has growing concerns about how the country is financing its debt. In its annual risk report, the Bank of Canada warns that hedge funds are buying […]
Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s top stories. Canadian Real Estate Canadian GDP Now Shows Recession, BMO Says Not Quite Canadian GDP surprised the market by falling for a third time in the past year. Real GDP fell 0.1% annualized in Q1 2026, meaning the economy now fits the traditional definition of a […]
Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s top stories. Canadian Real Estate Canadian Home Prices Near Record Highs In All But 2 Provinces What Canadian real estate price correction? The price of a typical home across Canada rose 0.3% to $666,400 in April, with prices rising last month in all but one province. The […]
Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s top stories. Canadian Real Estate Canadian Developers Set A Record For Completed & Unsold New Homes Canadian real estate developers are sitting on a glut of completed and unsold homes. Builder inventory surged to 19,536 unabsorbed new homes in April, up 36% from last year and triple […]
Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s top stories. Canadian Real Estate Canadian Unemployment Hits 7-Month High As Workers Outpace Jobs Canada’s job market lost 18,000 jobs in April, and looking past the headline data reveals a worse picture. The country shed 47,000 full-time roles last month, shedding 111,000 in the first 4 months […]
