For better or worse, real estate is one of the most important drivers of the Canadian economy. Residential structure investment, the amount of capital deployed for building new housing, reached one of the highest ratios against Gross Domestic Product (GDP) ever. Great news for the housing industry, but a recession has always followed at this […]
Canadian real estate sales are down across the country, especially in the Greater Toronto and Greater Vancouver area. That’s bad news for the Canadian economy.
Canadians are using their real estate to secure more debt at a new record pace, according to filings made with Canadian banking regulators.
Higher interest rates and a stress? No match for Toronto condo buyers, apparently. Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB) numbers show condo prices hit a new all-time high in March. The price peak was hit, as sales dropped and inventory levels continued to rise. Toronto Condo Prices Rise Over 14% The benchmark price of a condo […]
Vancouver detached real estate prices are near all-time highs, despite producing the worst first quarter of sales in over 27 years.
Canadians have been addicted to debt for quite some time, especially when it comes to real estate. So why is the Government of Canada paying hundreds of thousands to discreetly distribute ghost-written articles on how to take out more debt? Ottawa-based Blacklock’s Reporter took a dive through government contracts for over half a million dollars, […]
Analysts from Teranet and the National Bank of Canada are noting unusual movements in the Canadian real estate market. Data shows the market has made two movements, not seen outside of a recession.
Almost half of Toronto condo investors are committing to negative cash flow, according to a CIBC Economics study. One of the city’s most prominent mortgage brokers pointed out, this is a disaster in the making. If you can’t make the deal work at an all-time low for interest rates, when can you make it work? […]
Canadian real estate experts assumed people would start getting mortgages at credit unions, to skip the stress test required at banks. Bank of Canada numbers show there really isn’t much more demand than usual.
Toronto real estate is seeing detached prices climb for a second consecutive month. Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB) numbers show prices inched higher in March. Even with the climb, prices are lower than last year, as declining sales and rising inventory continue to release pricing pressure. Greater Toronto Detached Prices Are Down Over 6% Toronto’s […]
