This Week’s Top Stories: Canada Furthers Dependence On The Real Estate Industry, While Over 1 In 7 Buyers Now Need Mom & Dad To Help

Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s most important stories. Canadian Real Estate Over 1 In 7 First-Time Homebuyers Are Tapping The Bank Of Mom And Dad Ontario’s first-time buyers aren’t pursuing ownership alone, and instead are looking for much older help. Condo apartments bought with multiple owners with an age gap of 20 […]

This Week’s Top Stories: Toronto and Vancouver Real Estate Sales Soar, and Borrowing Rates Are On The Decline

Time for your weekly cheat sheet on this week’s most important stories. Canadian Real Estate CMHC: Toronto Real Estate “Highly” Vulnerable, Vancouver Stabilizing Warning signs exist for Canada’s real estate markets, but things are improving. The CMHC sees “moderate” vulnerabilities across Canada. Toronto held its rating of “high” vulnerability, due to overvaluation and overheating. Vancouver […]

This Week’s Top Stories: Half of Canada’s GDP Growth Is Real Estate and Construction, and A Big Bank Sees Vulnerabilities

Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s most important stories. Canadian Real Estate RBC: Toronto And Vancouver Real Estate Construction “Significantly” Outside Norm Canada is building a lot of houses, while unaffordability rises across the country. RBC Economics notes the building is a potential vulnerability. Same with the lack of affordability, which the bank […]

This Week’s Top Stories: Over Half of Toronto and Vancouver Can’t Afford A One-Bedroom Rental, and Foreign Buyers Are Disappearing

Time for your weekly cheat sheet on this week’s most important stories. Canadian Real Estate Canadian Real Estate Sales Make A Small Gain, Weighed Down By Vancouver Canadian real estate sale made a small climb this year. There were 47,755 sales according to CREA, up 0.30% from last year. The number is higher than the […]

This Week’s Top Stories: Canadian Non-Bank Mortgage Lenders Had Over 34,000 Late Mortgages, and Housing Starts Hit A Multi-Year High

Time for your weekly cheat sheet on this week’s most important stories. Canadian Real Estate Ontario Loses Over 5,000 Real Estate Jobs, BC Hits New All-Time High Real estate sector jobs made a minor movement on a national scale, but there’s a major shift on a regional basis. FIRE seasonally adjusted employment fell to 1.193 […]

This Week’s Top Stories: Canada Loses 11,000 Construction Jobs, and Over 1 In 10 Canadians Fall Behind On Debt Payments

Time for your weekly cheat sheet on this week’s most important stories. Canadian Real Estate Canada Lost 16,000 Jobs In May, Over 11,000 Were In Construction Canadian job numbers made an unusual decline in May, mostly due to a drop in construction. ADP employment numbers dropped to 16,519,461 jobs in May, down 0.10% from the […]