Time for your weekly cheat sheet on this week’s most important stories. Canadian Real Estate Canadian Households Are Just 0.01 Points From The Mother Of All Debt Records Canadian households are paying a near record amount to service their debt. The debt service ratio (DSR) reached 14.87% in Q4 2018, up 5.46% from last year. […]
Time for your weekly cheat sheet on this week’s most important stories. Canadian Real Estate The Canadian Government Launches Predatory First-Time Buyer Mortgage Scheme The Government of Canada is taking steps to provide first-time buyers assistance, through “equity lending.” The move would see the government provide new homeowners with up to 10% assistance to buy […]
Greater Vancouver’s detached buyers aren’t taking the lower price bait – at least not at these levels. Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver (REBGV) numbers show detached prices were still falling in February. The decline in prices came with a multi-decade low for sales, and multi-year high for inventory. Vancouver Detached Real Estate Prices Are […]
Toronto detached real estate buyers still haven’t warmed up to (slightly) lower prices. Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB) numbers show price growth continued to decelerate in February. The deceleration was the result of recession levels of sales, and a multi-year high. Prices are close to the same point as last year, with a deteriorating ratio […]
Time for your weekly cheat sheet on this week’s most important stories. Canadian Real Estate Canadian Real Estate Sales Print Worst February Since Before The Great Recession Canadian real estate sales are slowing dramatically from last year. CREA reported 29,974 sales in February, up 25% from the month before. This represents a 4.41% decline compared […]
There were a lot less Canadian real estate buyers than normal last month. Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) numbers show a drop in sales for February. The decline makes it one of the slowest Februaries for real estate sales in over a decade. Canadian Real Estate Sales Print Worst February In Over 12 Years Canadian […]
Time for your weekly cheat sheet on this week’s most important stories. Canadian Real Estate Canada’s Big 5 Banks Lose Mortgage Market Share… Kind Of Canada’s Big 5 banks lost market share last year, but are still up over the long run. In 2018, the Big 5 lost 2.7 points of market share, holding 72.6% […]
Time for your weekly cheat sheet on this week’s most important stories. Canadian Real Estate Toronto And Vancouver Real Estate See Mortgage Delinquencies Start To Climb Mortgage delinquencies in Toronto and Vancouver are off an of all-time low, especially on larger loans. Delinquencies on mortgages over $400,000 at origination in Toronto CMA increased 28.75% from […]
Time for your weekly cheat sheet on this week’s most important stories. Canadian Real Estate Canadian Real Estate Prices Make Smallest Price Change Since Great Recession Canadian real estate prices are moving a lot slower in 2019. The price of a typical home in Canada hit $613,500 in January, up 0.79% from the year before. […]
Time for your weekly cheat sheet on this week’s most important stories. Canadian Real Estate Canadian Government Considers Move To Load Households With More Real Estate Debt The Government of Canada is considering lengthening mortgage amortizations for first-time buyers. While the move will lower monthly payments, it increases the amount of debt they can carry […]
