Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s top stories. Canadian Real Estate Canadian Real Estate Balancing In A “Meaningful” Way, Pause Unlikely To Boost Market: BMO The Canadian real estate market is back to cooling after a brief jump in activity post-rate pause. Existing home sales fell, and new listings have been climbing to […]
Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s top stories. Canadian Real Estate Canadian Housing Investment Is Correcting At The Fastest Rate Since The 80s Bubble Pop Canadian housing investment has never dropped this fast without popping a bubble. Residential investment dropped to $133.1 billion in Q3 2023, a 13.8% decline from last year. The […]
Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s top stories. Canadian Real Estate Canada’s Student Visa Strategy Takes Off, Nearly 1 In 48 People On A Study Permit Canada’s strategy to grow its study permit business has taken off, helping its population soar. Study permits climbed 35% in Q2 2023, putting the country on track […]
Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s top stories. Canadian Real Estate Canadian GDP To Show Slowing Growth, Or The BoC May Hike Rates: RBC Canada’s largest bank is warning investors that the country’s economic output is slowing. RBC expects next week’s official Q2 2023 GDP growth data to show a sharp deceleration in […]
Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s top stories. Canadian Real Estate The Global Era of Cheap Credit May Be Over, Home Prices To Adjust: BMO One of Canada’s largest banks sees the global era of cheap credit coming to an end. Post-Global Financial Crisis (GFC) the world was flooded with liquidity— pressuring real […]
Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s top stories. Canadian Real Estate Canada’s New Housing Minister Has Already Demonstrated He’s Clueless Canada’s housing minister has only been in office for a few days, but he’s already stumbled. The minister promised what we’re calling “quantum affordability”—home prices will both fall and stay at the same […]
Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s top stories. Canadian Real Estate Canada’s Real Estate Correction Is Far From Over: Oxford Economics Canada’s real estate correction is only half over, warns a prominent research firm. Oxford Economics sees the Spring bounce fading, and the correction resuming. Prices are forecast to fall another 10% by […]
Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s top stories. Canadian Real Estate Canadian Mortgages To Surge Higher As Bond Yield Hits 16 Year High Canadian mortgage rates are set to increase as the Government of Canada 5-year bond yield hit a 16-year high. This yield directly influences the 5-year fixed mortgage rate, which is […]
Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s top stories. Canadian Real Estate Canadian Household Debt Hits $2.9 Trillion As Personal Loans Pick Up Canadian households are shying away from mortgages and picking up more personal loans. The outstanding balance of household debt reached $2.9 trillion in May. A new record, but also the slowest […]
Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s top stories. Canadian Real Estate Canada’s Rising Unemployment Is A “Foolproof” Recession Signal: BMO Canada’s latest employment data shows a “foolproof” recession signal, according to BMO. The rising unemployment rate was written off as an anomaly, due to the population boom. Economists at the bank suggest that’s […]
