Canadian Election 2019 Archives

This Week’s Top Stories: Canadian Politicians Want To Inject Even More Cash Into Housing, While Toronto Climbs The Global Bubble List

October 6, 2019

Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s top stories. Canadian Election 2019 Canadian Politicians Promise To Bring More Risk To Housing: Part One, The Liberals The Liberals promise to increase the first-time home buyer incentive (FTHBI), in Toronto, Vancouver, and Victoria. Previous limits were designed to prevent homebuyers from inflating those very markets. However, […]

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Canada’s Conservative Housing Plan Is So Bad, Even The Party Used To Hate It

October 3, 2019

Only 18 days until the election, and every party has a terrible housing plan. One of the more interesting ones comes from the Conservative Party of Canada (CPC). The key point is extending the maximum amortization for mortgages. This is a fancy way of saying they want to let buyers pay their mortgage over a […]

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Canadian Politicians Promise To Bring More Risk To Housing: Part One, The Liberals

October 2, 2019

Canadian politicians are promising everything but the kitchen sink in the 2019 Federal Election. Although, there’s still 19 days – so don’t rule out kitchen sink subsidies. Most notable to our readers is obviously their housing platforms. A wide range of readers, from fund managers to Millennial buyers, have asked for our take on specific […]