This Week’s Top Stories: The Canadian Property Bubble Reaches The Contagion Stage, and Mortgage Rates Forecast To Rise 40%

Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s top stories.  Canadian Real Estate The Canadian Property Bubble Reaches Contagion, Making A Financial Crisis Likely The Canadian property bubble reached the contagion phase, spreading to other areas. Real estate bubbles often spread from the city center to the suburbs. Investors move to regions with cheaper prices, […]

This Week’s Top Stories: Banks See The Canadian Property Bubble Cooling, Criminals Push Prices Higher, and Lumber Crashes

Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s most important stories. Canadian Real Estate The Canadian Property Bubble Inflation Is Now 75% Of Net-Worth Growth Canadian households are unusually dependent on real estate generating their wealth these days. The first quarter of 2021 saw 76.96% of net-worth from increased real estate values. This is the […]

This Week’s Top Stories: Bank of Canada Calls Out Property Bubbles, And Canada Tops The List of Least Affordable Cities

Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s most important stories.  Canadian Real Estate Bank Of Canada Indicators Now Show Some Real Estate Markets Are A Bubble Canada’s central bank published its own index of overvalued housing markets. The BoC’s latest research shows Toronto, Hamilton, and Montreal are exuberant (AKA bubbles) in Q1 2021. Montreal […]

This Week’s Top Stories: Canadian Real Estate Markets See Supply Surge, and An Official Describes The Market As A “Bubble”

Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s most important stories.  Canadian Real Estate  How The Canadian Government’s Supersized Budgets Inflate The Property Bubble Most people only think of the impact of government borrowing in the context of taxation — and they believe it’s not a huge deal. Governments can borrow a whack of money, […]