This Week’s Top Stories: How Central Banks Drove Pent-Up Demand Too Early, and Canadians Have Difficulty Paying Mortgages

Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s most important stories.  Canadian Real Estate Understanding Pent-Up Demand In Real Estate, And How Central Banks Broke Markets Pent-up demand is a temporary rise in consumer buying, after a period of restraint. It normally appears at the end of a recession, but not this time. During recessions, […]

This Week’s Top Stories: Canada’s Largest Banks Have Over 500,000 Mortgages On Deferral, As Regulators Phase Out Special Treatment

Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s most important stories.  Canadian Real Estate Canada’s Big Six Banks Set Aside Over $6 Billion For Credit Losses Canada’s Big Six banks have set aside billions of cash to prepare for losses on loans. Provisions for credit losses (PCLs) reached $6.76 billion in Q3 2020 at the […]

This Week’s Top Stories: Canada’s National Housing Agency Warns Buyers Again, As The Mortgage “Cliff” Approaches

Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s most important stories. Canadian Real Estate Here’s What Canada’s Mortgage Deferral Cliff Looks Like, And Why Experts Are Worried Canadians suffering income losses had their mortgage payments deferred, but those deferrals are about to expire. During the pandemic, the government worked with banks to delay payments for […]

This Week’s Top Stories: Canadians Defer Mortgage Payments At 2x The Rate of Americans, and International Students Told To Stay Abroad

Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s most important stories. Canadian Real Estate Canadians Are Deferring Mortgage Payments At 2x The Rate Of Americans Canadians are taking advantage of mortgage payment deferrals at a much higher rate than Americans. Canadian banks have about 16% of mortgages on payment deferral, a steady climb since the […]

This Week’s Top Stories: Canadian First-Time Condo Buyers Take A Hit, And Consumer Credit Contracts

Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s most important stories. Canadian Real Estate Canada’s Housing Agency Warned First-Time Buyers. Now They’re Getting Slaughtered Condo buyers were warned not to make the smallest downpayment possible, but some did anyway. Now they’re facing the potential of negative equity. In Toronto, buyers of a benchmark condo in […]