Canada’s late Spring real estate market continues, but some of the pent-up demand has caught up. Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) data show a new all-time record for August sales. The rise is largely due to the lockdown delaying the busy Spring season into the Summer. The result is an odd comparison period, that is […]
Greater Toronto real estate has seen sales surge, and the detached market is leading the way. Toronto Regional Real Estate Board (TRREB) data shows detached sales nearly reached a record high in August. Most of the activity surge has been in the 905 suburbs, but the City’s buyers don’t seem to have noticed. The City […]
Greater Toronto real estate’s brief pandemic lull is over, and the market is picking up where it left off. Toronto Regional Real Estate Board (TRREB) data shows prices reached a new all-time high in August. The increase comes even as sellers hit the market at a much faster pace than buyers. The suburbs are still […]
Canada’s central bank flooded real estate markets with cheap cash when the pandemic hit, and we may know why. Hilliard MacBeth, a prominent Canadian wealth manager, released a research note for clients last week. In his post, he dissects a Bank of Canada (BoC) staff research note from 2019, testing the resilience of the banking […]
Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s most important stories. Canadian Real Estate Bank Of Canada’s Mortgage Buying Is A Quarter The Size Of New Mortgage Credit Canada’s central bank kicked into action during the pandemic… by flooding the mortgage market with cheap cash. The central bank held $513 million worth of CMBs in […]
Canada’s real estate industry has seen a smaller impact than the general economy during the pandemic. Statistics Canada (Stat Can) data shows residential investment fell in Q2 2020. The drop was smaller than the one GDP made though, meaning the economic dependency on real estate grew. At least for the next few months. Residential Investment […]
Greater Toronto new home sales are on fire, everywhere but in the actual city. Data from Altus Group and BILD GTA shows new home sales had the biggest July in over a decade. Surprisingly, this trend is driven almost exclusively by suburban home sales. In the City of Toronto, new home sales have dropped by […]
Toronto real estate has seen pent up demand drive sales higher, but the impact on condos has been limited. Toronto Regional Real Estate Board (TRREB) data shows a fairly large uptick for condo sales in July. The increased sales volume has been met with sellers hitting the market at the fastest pace in at least […]
Canada’s largest real estate markets partially attribute fast climbing prices to immigration. However, with a significant decline in permanent residents, prices have yet to slow down. Government of Canada (GoC) data shows new permanent residents admitted to major markets dropped in June. The decline was most notable in Toronto and Montreal, where numbers are down […]
Canada’s largest land registry and a big six bank are seeing a slight recovery, but things are beginning to trend lower. The Teranet–National Bank House Price Index (TNB HPI) shows prices increased in July. The increase however, was the smallest for the month in 15 years, and is actually a decline before seasonal adjustments. Canadian […]
