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. […]

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 […]