Canadian real estate sales continued to slump, any way you cut the numbers. Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) numbers show May sales, usually the peak of the year, are significantly lower than last year. In fact, it was some the worst May numbers for Canada over the past decade. Seasonally Adjusted Versus Non-Seasonally Adjusted If […]
Time for your weekly cheat sheet on this week’s most important stories. Canadian Real Estate Canada Has A Subprime Real Estate Problem, You Just Don’t Know It Most people know the US real estate crash started with subprime lenders. Most don’t know most defaults were people with good credit, using subprime lenders. The same trend […]
A few weeks ago, a real estate agent told me about his client. Relatively wealthy older dude, closed on not one but two townhouses he plans on flipping. After some questions regarding who financed such a deal, he explains it was a private lender. Right before adding, “don’t worry, it’s not like in the US. […]
Stress testing Canadian real estate buyers is preventing highly indebted borrowers from getting in over their heads. That’s a good thing.
Canadian real estate prices rise in May, but print the longest deceleration trend since before the Great Recession according to Teranet.
Toronto detached real estate is seeing prices move seasonally higher, but is still way below last year’s levels. Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB) numbers show lower detached prices in May, but the declines are tapering in size. Not entirely unexpected with declining detached sales, and rising inventory across Greater Toronto. Toronto Detached Homes Are Down […]
Canadian real estate sales have been increasingly been propped up by private mortgages, but just how large is this market?
Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s most important stories. Canadian Real Estate IMF Warns That Canadian Real Estate Is A “Key Domestic Risk” The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is warning that real estate is a “key domestic” risk to Canada. Changes in price expectations, increasing mortgage rates, and unemployment could all be triggers […]
Canadian real estate prices are one of the biggest risks to the country, according to a big three letter organization. The International Monetary Fund (IMF), the global organization dedicated to sustainable growth, released a statement after an official “mission” to Canada. The organization cited real estate prices as a “key domestic risk.” Changing price expectations, […]
Record low interest rates? Don’t worry, lenders are making it up in volume. Statistics Canada’s latest release shows interest payments on mortgages in Q1 of 2018 are showing the largest growth since 2008. The multi-quarter record growth has households paying the most they’ve ever paid in interest per quarter, ever. Canadians Paid A Record Amount […]
