This Week’s Top Stories: Canadian Real Estate To See Big Changes Post Election, and Mortgage Lenders Panic As Yields Soar

Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s most important stories.  Canadian Real Estate Canada Re-Elected The Same Leadership, But Real Estate Will Be Very Different Canada re-elected the same leadership, but with a very different housing strategy. They promised demand inducement schemes, supply subsidies, and improvements in trade transparency. The demand measures are likely […]

This Week’s Top Stories: Canadian Real Estate Is A Double Bubble, and Economists Say Politicians Want Higher Prices

Time for your sheet on this week’s top stories.  Canadian Real Estate Canadian Real Estate Is Now A Bubble On Top Of A Bubble: US Federal Reserve Exuberant Canadian home buyers have pushed real estate into a bubble — again. The US Federal Reserve’s Exuberance Index shows Canada completed 5 exuberant quarters. This is enough […]

This Week’s Top Stories: Canadian Real Estate Drags The Economy, Risky Mortgage Debt, and Hidden Foreign Capital

Time for your weekly cheat sheet on this week’s most important stories.  Canadian Real Estate Canadian Housing Investment Is Falling, And Will Be A Drag The Economy: BMO Canadian real estate investment is starting to slow, and a big bank thinks it’s just the beginning. The GDP sub-component of residential investment made an annualized decline […]

This Week’s Top Stories: Canada’s Real Estate Industry Freaks Out Over Election Promises, Including Banning Foreign Buyers

Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s top stories.  Canadian Real Estate One Of Canada’s Largest Real Estate Lobbies Lost Their Sh*T Over An Election Promise One of Canada’s largest real estate lobbies isn’t very happy with one of the new election promises. The Liberals promised this week to ban “blind-bidding” if re-elected. The […]

This Week’s Top Stories: Canadians Are “House Poor,” And A Big Bank Suggests Cooling Real Estate Demand

Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s most important stories.  Canadian Real Estate Canadian Real Estate Needs More Focus On Demand-Side Issues: BMO Canadian real estate needs to focus on the demand-side measures to fix housing. Urban housing completions hit over 200,000 annualized units in July. The higher than usual supply should be cooling […]

This Week’s Top Stories: Canadian Real Estate Has A Money Laundering Problem, and An Ineffective Affordability Plan

Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s most important stories.  Canadian Real Estate Canada’s Largest Source Of Money Laundered Funds For Real Estate Is… Canadians Dirty money from Canada is the biggest source of cash laundered through real estate. Global Financial Integrity (GFI) conducted a study, and found US$626.3 million ($822.7 million) of real […]

This Week’s Top Stories: Bank of Canada Worries About Deteriorating Mortgage Quality, As Rates Fall Below Inflation

Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s top stories.  Canadian Real Estate Canadian Mortgage Quality Has “Deteriorated”: Bank Of Canada Newly issued mortgage debt is going to highly indebted mortgage borrowers. These borrowers represent 21.7% of mortgages issued in Q4 2020, a new record high. It even dwarfed the previous record set in 2016, […]