Time for your weekly cheat sheet on this week’s most important stories. Canadian Real Estate Canadian Household Debt Is Back Above US Great Recession Numbers Canadian household debt to income ratio (DTI) are now above peak US levels. Household DTI reached 166.79% in Q3 2018, up 0.15% from last year. That might seem low if […]
Toronto real estate is printing new records, but not the good kind. Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB) numbers show prices increased in December, when compared to 12 months ago, but are still below peak. It was also the slowest December for sales in 6 years, with the second highest inventory in the same period. Toronto […]
Canadian households just demonstrated debt is more complicated than bank economists think. Statistics Canada numbers, adjusted by former Maclean’s business editor Jason Kirby, show Canada’s debt to income ratio made a huge jump in Q3 2018. Canadian debt to income levels are now back above the US pre-Great Recession peak. That level, which is notoriously […]
Time for your weekly cheat sheet on this week’s most important stories. Canadian Real Estate Canadian Real Estate Price Gains Continue To Taper, Annual Growth Falls Below 2% After an epic run, Canadian real estate prices are starting to taper in growth. The price of a typical home across Canada reached $618,800 in November, up […]
Canada’s largest bank believes real estate affordability will continue to deteriorate. RBC Economics updated their Affordability Index for Q3 2018. The index, which shows how much a household would pay for a mortgage, printed one of the worst levels in history. Analysts from the bank expect affordability to get worse in 2019, as interest rates […]
Canadian real estate owners borrowed another billion of their home equity. Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI) numbers show the balance of loans secured by home equity hit a new record in October. The balance, which is slowing in growth, is primarily consumers borrowing for personal consumption. Loans Secured By Residential Property Loans […]
After years of overheated growth, Canadian real estate price gains are tapering. Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) numbers show prices for a benchmark (a.k.a. typical) home across Canada slowed in growth in November. Prices are beginning to stall after years of explosive growth across most of the country. Canadian Real Estate Prices Rise Less Than […]
Time for your weekly cheat sheet on this week’s most important stories. Canadian Real Estate The Canadian Real Estate Industry Lowers 2019 Sales Forecast For A Third Time The Canadian real estate industry is lowering their forecast for a third time. CREA now expects 458,200 sales in 2018, down 11.2% from the year before. The […]
Greater Toronto new homes sales are cooling. BILD and Altus Group numbers show sales dropped to multi-year lows in November. The decline in sales is combining with higher building activity, sending inventory higher than we’ve seen in the past few years. Greater Toronto New Detached Prices Fall, While Condos Rise The price of a new […]
Canadian real estate markets are cooling, especially in Western Canada. Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) numbers show the SNLR fell across Canada. The indicator, used to gauge demand by the industry, increased in just 3 major real estate markets – all in Eastern Canada. Markets in Western Canada led the index lower, while Toronto chilled […]
