Tag: Great Recession

Canada

Can You Tell If These Central Bank Quotes Are About Canadian Real Estate in 2018, or The US Before The Great Recession?

June 21, 2018

The real estate industry listens very closely to central bankers, and why wouldn’t they? Monetary policy heavily influences real estate prices. However, if you really listen to the words they use, you start to realize that they all sound the same… almost all of the time, regardless of what the economy is doing. Half joking, […]

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BIS: Real Estate Prices Have Only Recovered In Half of G20 Countries Since 2007

June 6, 2018

Canadian real estate prices skipped the Great Recession, but most places weren’t so lucky. Analysts from the Bank of International Settlements (BIS), the central bank for central banks, crunched the numbers for G20 real estate prices. The majority of advanced economies saw home prices rise in 2017. Despite the increase, home prices in half of […]