This Week’s Top Stories: Canada’s Big Banks Warn A Real Estate Shock & Hard Landing Are Coming
Canada’s large banks warn an “enormous” shock to real estate is coming, and a hard landing will start as early as this year.
Canada’s large banks warn an “enormous” shock to real estate is coming, and a hard landing will start as early as this year.
Canadian real estate will see a second shock as mortgage pre-approvals secured at much lower rates fade, according to BMO.
Canada’s best performing real estate markets during the boom were in Southern Ontario, and now they’re the worst performing.
Canadian real estate prices are now back to the lowest level since November 2021, with annual growth likely to turn negative soon.
RBC no longer sees a soft-landing as a possibility, and now expects a moderate recession will kick off as early as the end of this year.
Top stories in Canadian real estate include a hard landing for the economy, and real estate’s unsustainable growth according to the BoC.
Oxford Economics now sees a moderate recession after the Bank of Canada now needs more aggressive rate hikes due to persistent inflation.
This week’s top stories include two “Big Six” banks sharing a worsening outlook for Canadian real estate and Toronto prices plummeting.
Greater Toronto real estate prices continued to fall in August, with the cost of a typical home now back to October 2021-levels.
Canada’s second-largest bank is the latest to forecast declining real estate prices, but the good news is they don’t see a deep recession.