Canadian home sales are coming down from the all-time record high hit earlier this year. Seasonally adjusted home sales fell in May, shows Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) data. Home sale activity still remains elevated, even printing another monthly record. However, sales dropped in 80% of markets across the country, and are falling fast. With […]
More housing supply is on the way, according to Canada’s national housing agency. New urban housing starts increased in May, shows Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) data. The rise in activity is still below the peak seen earlier in the year. Similar to what’s happening in the US, starts have begun to fall from […]
Lumber prices are still making a nose dive, as supply catches up and demand softens. Last week we mentioned lumber prices have officially crashed from their all-time high. This week BMO economist Carl Campus wrote to clients that prices have fallen below US$1,000/mbf. This is the first time it fell below that mark since March. […]
Canadian inflation is marching higher, and so are the expectations for mortgage rates. Desjardins economics sees the 5-year posted rate having more room to rise than fall in the future. The institution has forecast the posted 5-year fixed-rate mortgage can rise up to 40% by 2024. While the posted rate is rarely the rate paid […]
Tales of big city buyers pushing prices higher in small towns has more data confirmation. Teranet, Ontario’s private land registry operator, conducted a study on provincial migration. They found existing homeowners migrated in record numbers over the past 3 quarters. Owners fleeing Toronto paid much more than the average migrating household as well. This likely […]
Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s most important stories. Canadian Real Estate The Canadian Property Bubble Inflation Is Now 75% Of Net-Worth Growth Canadian households are unusually dependent on real estate generating their wealth these days. The first quarter of 2021 saw 76.96% of net-worth from increased real estate values. This is the […]
The Canadian property bubble is consuming the whole economy — and concentrating wealth creation. Household net-worth soared to a new high in the first quarter of 2021, according to Statistics Canada (Stat Can) data. Real estate represented over three-quarters of the gains in wealth, which is much higher than normal. Fanning the flames of the […]
The economy made some improvements but is still overly debt-dependent. That’s what the latest household debt to GDP data from Statistics Canada (Stat Can) shows for Q1 2021. The ratio is significantly higher than a year ago, but that aside — it was high before the pandemic. Canadian households make Americans before the Great Recession […]
The pandemic is almost over, but things aren’t going back to the way they were. A new working paper called Why Working From Home Will Stick was recently published by the US-based National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). They found more employers are planning on adopting WFH as a regular part of operations, and it […]
Another Canadian real estate developer is asking buyers to cover soaring material costs. Delpark Homes, a Greater Toronto real estate developer, is the latest to ask buyers for a top-up. Recently soaring material costs, such as lumber, have crushed homebuilding margins. Since new homes are often bought years ago, an unexpected rise in costs can […]
