This Week’s Top Stories: Canadian Real Estate Markets See Supply Surge, and An Official Describes The Market As A “Bubble”

Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s most important stories.  Canadian Real Estate  How The Canadian Government’s Supersized Budgets Inflate The Property Bubble Most people only think of the impact of government borrowing in the context of taxation — and they believe it’s not a huge deal. Governments can borrow a whack of money, […]

This Week’s Top Stories: IMF Warns Canadian Real Estate Prices Are Overvalued, and Over-leveraged Borrowers Now A Record Market Share

Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s biggest stories. Canadian Real Estate Canadian Real Estate Overvalued, Toronto Needs A 28% Correction For Fair Value: IMF Many Canadian real estate markets are massively overvalued, according to the IMF. Their model shows Toronto’s estimated value is 28.2% lower than current prices. Vancouver’s estimated fair value is […]

This Week’s Top Stories: Canada’s Property Bubble Is Too Big For A Crash To Fix, and Banks Say It Threatens To Destabilize The Economy

Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s most important stories.  Canadian Real Estate Canadian Property Bubble Nears Systemic Failure, And Not Even A Big Crash Can Fix It It’s too late for a real estate price crash to make Canada’s largest markets affordable. That’s what Rob Carrick, one of the country’s top personal finance […]