The real estate industry listens very closely to central bankers, and why wouldn’t they? Monetary policy heavily influences real estate prices. However, if you really listen to the words they use, you start to realize that they all sound the same… almost all of the time, regardless of what the economy is doing. Half joking, […]
Toronto real estate might be seeing sales plunge, but condo prices still hit a new all-time high… despite higher inventory.
Less Canadians are putting up their homes for business loans, and more are doing it for personal ones. Filings with The Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI) show loans secured against residential property showed moderate growth in April. The loans, such as HELOCs, showed growth almost exclusively for personal consumption. Meanwhile, the dollar […]
Canadian real estate sales continued to slump, any way you cut the numbers. Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) numbers show May sales, usually the peak of the year, are significantly lower than last year. In fact, it was some the worst May numbers for Canada over the past decade. Seasonally Adjusted Versus Non-Seasonally Adjusted If […]
Time for your weekly cheat sheet on this week’s most important stories. Canadian Real Estate Canada Has A Subprime Real Estate Problem, You Just Don’t Know It Most people know the US real estate crash started with subprime lenders. Most don’t know most defaults were people with good credit, using subprime lenders. The same trend […]
A few weeks ago, a real estate agent told me about his client. Relatively wealthy older dude, closed on not one but two townhouses he plans on flipping. After some questions regarding who financed such a deal, he explains it was a private lender. Right before adding, “don’t worry, it’s not like in the US. […]
Stress testing Canadian real estate buyers is preventing highly indebted borrowers from getting in over their heads. That’s a good thing.
Canadian real estate prices rise in May, but print the longest deceleration trend since before the Great Recession according to Teranet.
Toronto detached real estate is seeing prices move seasonally higher, but is still way below last year’s levels. Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB) numbers show lower detached prices in May, but the declines are tapering in size. Not entirely unexpected with declining detached sales, and rising inventory across Greater Toronto. Toronto Detached Homes Are Down […]
Canadian real estate sales have been increasingly been propped up by private mortgages, but just how large is this market?
