This Week’s Top Stories: The Bank of Canada Only Sees 2 Real Estate Bubbles, and The US Is Now In A Bubble

Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s most important stories.  Canadian Real Estate  The Bank Of Canada Only Sees 2 Real Estate Bubbles And Vancouver Isn’t One Of Them Global agencies are ringing the alarms, but Canada’s central bank only sees 2 bubbles. The HPEI, the Bank of Canada’s exuberance indicator, only flagged Hamilton […]

This Week’s Top Stories: Canada’s Immigrants Are Unhappy With Real Estate and Central Banks See Odds of A Correction Rising

Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s top stories.  Canadian Real Estate Canada’s Recent Immigrants Are Unhappy With Housing After Real Estate Prices Soar Canada’s built a brand as a welcoming immigration hub but recent immigrants disagree. A new study from Stat Can shows how Canadians of various demographics felt about housing in 2018. […]

This Week’s Top Stories: Canadian Home Building Investment Crashed and Commercial Real Estate Is Contracting

Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s top stories.  Canadian Real Estate Canadian Home Building Investment Has Officially Gone From A Correction To A Crash Canadian home building investment has officially gone from a correction to a crash. Seasonally adjusted real residential construction investment fell to $8.4 billion in September. This is a drop […]

This Week’s Top Stories: Experts Say Canadian Real Estate Is “Risky,” and Money Laundering Is Inflating Prices

Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s top stories.  Canadian Real Estate Canadian Banks Moved $167 Million From Dodgy Sources, And Even Issued Mortgages We look at one exhibit from the Cullen Commission, BC’s Inquiry Into Money Laundering in Canada. Counsel found a family was able to move $132 million from dodgy sources without […]

This Week’s Top Stories: Canadian Real Estate Is Overvalued, and The BoC Ends Program That Boosted Prices

Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s top real estate stories.  Canadian Real Estate Canadian Real Estate Prices Are Overvalued By Up To 91%: Moody’s Canadian real estate is massively overvalued, said a global credit rating giant. Moody’s estimates the average urban market in Canada is 22% overvalued as of Q2 2021. Large overvaluations […]

This Week’s Top Stories: Canadian Real Estate Tops The List of Global Bubbles, and IMF Warns of Correction Risks

Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s top stories.  Canadian Real Estate A Global Swiss Bank Named Toronto The 2nd Biggest Real Estate Bubble In The World Two Canadian cities landed themselves on the UBS Global Real Estate Bubble Index. The Swiss bank ranked Toronto as the second-largest bubble, and Vancouver as the sixth. […]