Greater Toronto home prices are surging even faster after the central bank’s warning. Toronto Regional Real Estate Board (TRREB) data shows home prices soared in January. Low inventory and a long warning for interest rates, helped to drive demand to send prices to a new record. Warning people rates will rise months in advance appears […]
Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s top stories. Canadian Real Estate Bank Of Canada Quietly Revised Its GDP Forecast To Show A Larger Housing Contraction The Bank of Canada (BoC) didn’t raise rates, despite the housing market getting out of control. However, it appears a part of the concern is Canada has little […]
Canada’s squeaky clean reputation took a nosedive, according to an anti-corruption watchdog. This week, Transparency International (TI) released its annual Corruption Perceptions Index for 2021. The index shows Canada continues its spiral lower, having fallen out of the top 10 in 2019. Extensive money laundering and opaque institutions are amongst the reasons for the decline. […]
Canadian real estate is now some of the most expensive in the world. Home prices across the country, not in pricey hubs, are now comically overvalued. At this point, not even a major housing crash can restore affordability. Many think this is pandemic-related, but overvaluation has long been a concern. For at least a decade, […]
Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s most important stories. Canadian Real Estate The Bank Of Canada Will Raise Rates In Two Weeks, End Year 500% Higher: JP Morgan One of the world’s largest banks is making a bold call — the Bank of Canada will raise interest rates this month. JP Morgan sees […]
Toronto’s sky-high real estate prices might have turned into a hurdle for the city’s growth. Statistics Canada (Stat Can) released its 2021 population estimates for Toronto this week. For the year ending July 1, most of the city’s growth was seniors. Last year was a bit of an anomaly, that’s true. It’s not a new […]
Canadian real estate is being scooped up by investors with excessively cheap credit. Ownership data for residential real estate across four regions show a significant share owned by investors in 2020. What’s most impressive is how fast this trend must have accelerated. Cities have seen up to 90% of recently completed homes go to investors, […]
Last week we took a dive through non-resident ownership data across provinces. Today we’re going to break down similar Statistics Canada (Stat Can) for cities. We ranked cities by the highest rate of non-resident ownership for 2020. Almost every city in the Stat Can treasure trove had a significant non-resident ownership rate. Transfer data traditionally […]
Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s top stories. Canadian Real Estate The Bank Of Canada Is Unlikely To Hike Rates Until March, Despite Soaring Yields: BMO Canadian bond yields are soaring as inflation drives the cost of borrowing higher. Still, the BoC is unlikely to raise rates according to BMO, one of the […]
Just when you think Canadian real estate can’t get any more exuberant, the central bank straps a rocket to it. That was the take from BMO, whose Friday research note is a quick look at Toronto real estate prices. The city, much like the rest of Canada, is seeing some of the highest home price […]
