This Week’s Top Stories: IMF Warns Canadian Real Estate Prices Are Overvalued, and Over-leveraged Borrowers Now A Record Market Share

Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s biggest stories. Canadian Real Estate Canadian Real Estate Overvalued, Toronto Needs A 28% Correction For Fair Value: IMF Many Canadian real estate markets are massively overvalued, according to the IMF. Their model shows Toronto’s estimated value is 28.2% lower than current prices. Vancouver’s estimated fair value is […]

This Week’s Top Stories: Canada’s Property Bubble Is Too Big For A Crash To Fix, and Banks Say It Threatens To Destabilize The Economy

Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s most important stories.  Canadian Real Estate Canadian Property Bubble Nears Systemic Failure, And Not Even A Big Crash Can Fix It It’s too late for a real estate price crash to make Canada’s largest markets affordable. That’s what Rob Carrick, one of the country’s top personal finance […]

This Week’s Top Stories: Banks Say Canadian Real Estate Prices Are In A Melt-Up, While The Industry Sees Market Fizzling By Year End

Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s top stories.  Canadian Real Estate Canadian Real Estate In A “Melt Up,” And Little Chance Of Stopping It By Spring: BMO Canadian real estate prices are in a “melt up,” says one the country’s largest banks. This is when prices show unsustainable price growth, based solely on […]

This Week’s Top Stories: BoC Says Canada Needs Real Estate Growth, While New Zealand Says Put People First

Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s most important stories.  Canadian Real Estate BOC Governor Says Canada Will Lean On Real Estate Because “We Need The Growth” Canada’s central bank didn’t just dismiss concerns about the hot real estate market, but welcomed them. Bank of Canada governor Tiff Macklem dismissed the need for cooling […]

This Week’s Top Stories: Canadians See Their Homes Make More Than Them, But It Still Underperformed Other Investments

Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s top stories.  Canadian Real Estate Everything’s A Bubble, And Canadian Real Estate Was One Of The Worst Returns Canadian real estate printed huge price gains this year, but how does it compare to other assets? Comparing returns for other investments that have been popular with Millennials, it […]

This Week’s Top Stories: Canadian Unemployment Tops G7 Along With Real Estate Price Growth, and Toronto Investors Look to Exit

Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s most important stories.   Canadian Real Estate Canadian Unemployment Is 55% Higher Than G7 Average: OECD Canada has the fastest growing real estate prices in the G7… and the highest level of unemployment. The country’s rate is now 9.4% in January, up 67.86% from the same month last […]

This Week’s Top Stories: Toronto and Vancouver Real Estate Out of Reach For Local Incomes, and Tens of Thousands Are Behind on Rent

Time for your weekly cheat sheet on this week’s top stories.  Canadian Real Estate Buying A Typical Home In Canada? Cities Now Require Incomes Of Up To $230,000 Buying a typical home across Canada is now out of reach for many, especially if it’s where the jobs are. A typical non-condo apartment in Toronto, requires […]