Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s top stories. Canadian Real Estate Canadian Real Estate Nears End of 60-Year Cycle—Transit Use Is The Risk Sign The decline of public transit use in Canada is a bigger sign than many realize. Since 2020, revenues have returned to normal but ridership hasn’t recovered—even with the addition […]
Vancouver and Toronto’s real estate markets aren’t special. Here’s the lesson we taught the country’s top economists this week.
Crime is an important factor in determining the health of a local economy, so let’s take a dive through Vancouver’s latest crime stats.
Feel like expenses are rising faster than frequently quoted statistics? Here’s how Canadians are being misinformed about inflation.
Economist Henry George first identified over 100 years ago that real estate runs in cycles. Here’s a primer on identifying those cycles.
Real estate markets are healthy because there’s a low level of defaults, right? Not exactly. Junk economists (and that cousin of yours that gives unsolicited investment advice) often explain that the lower the levels of mortgages in arrears, the healthier the market. In actuality, it’s the opposite. Low levels of defaults are a sign that […]
