Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s top stories. Canadian Real Estate Vancouver Laundering Model That Inflated Home Prices Moves To Toronto Greater Toronto is increasingly showing signs a money laundering technique known as the “Vancouver Model” has moved there. A casino was hit with an $80k anti-money laundering fine after a patron flagged […]
Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s top stories. Canadian Real Estate Canada’s Real Estate Bubble Is Batsh!t Crazy Compared To Other G7s Canadian real estate prices are moving like nothing else in the developed world. New data from the US Federal Reserve shows Canadian home prices have risen much faster than any other […]
Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s top stories. Canadian Real Estate Canada’s Economy Falling Behind, US Growing 10x Faster Per Capita Canada might have been making headlines for its population-driven growth. However, that’s looking at aggregate GDP, which fails to adjust for population growth. Looking at GDP per capita reveals households are falling […]
Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s top stories. Canadian Real Estate Canada’s Immigration Plan Is Not Viable In Any Version of Reality: BMO Canada’s population growth strategy is quickly turning into a disaster. Not only has it driven interest rates higher, and failed to grow the economy—immigrants are finding themselves in precarious situations, […]
Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s top stories. Canadian Real Estate Canadian “Systemic Risk” Due To CLP Mortgages Is Bigger Than You Think OSFI, the country’s bank regulator, has mentioned combined loan plans (CLPs) are a systemic risk. Mainstream discussion of the issue was largely void though, as it was unclear how big […]
Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s top stories. Canadian Real Estate Bank of Canada Is Pushing A False Real Estate Narrative To Divert Blame: BMO Last week, the Bank of Canada (BoC) claimed the country has a long-standing housing supply issue. This ticked off a number of experts that have been following this […]
Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s top stories. Canadian Real Estate Canadian Unemployment Rises, Immigrants Sold On Non-Existent Opportunities The latest data for Canadian employment was better than expected—but analysts weren’t expecting good news. The economy added 22k jobs in November, which would be good news had the economy not added even more […]
Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s top stories. Canadian Real Estate Canadian Housing Resembles A Return To Victorian-Era Inheritance Culture: Stat Can Canada is quickly reverting back to a Victorian-era style inheritance culture. That was the suggestion from the country’s national statistics agency, when exploring the role of parental wealth on the homeownership […]
Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s top stories. Canadian Real Estate Canadian Real Estate Prices Slip Further As Sellers Suddenly Surge Canadian real estate markets continue to soften, with few signs of a break. The benchmark (typical) home price slipped lower in October, and is 14.6% below the March 2022 record high. Slow […]
Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s top stories. Canadian Real Estate Bank of Canada Can Diverge From The Fed, But We Doubt It: BMO Canada’s monetary policy typically follows the US, but it may no longer be able to keep up. The US economy continues to show strong growth, potentially requiring even […]
