Canadian real estate is perfectly efficient, and households never display signs of exuberance. That or it’s a ticking time bomb, waiting to go off. This year marks the 24th year of expanding home prices in Canada, and we’re two quarters into it. This isn’t just the longest expansion in Canadian history, it’s one of the […]
Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s top stories. Canadian Real Estate Canadian Mortgage Quality Has “Deteriorated”: Bank Of Canada Newly issued mortgage debt is going to highly indebted mortgage borrowers. These borrowers represent 21.7% of mortgages issued in Q4 2020, a new record high. It even dwarfed the previous record set in 2016, […]
US housing is all of a sudden cooling very quickly. US Census data shows single-family home sales fell for a third consecutive month in June. The decline in sales helped to push new housing inventory to pre-pandemic levels. Prices are still elevated, but they did give back a significant amount of gains last month. US […]
Despite a booming US real estate market, foreign buyers have been sitting this one out. National Association of Realtors (NAR) data shows foreign buyers made a big drop in the year ending March 2021. The pandemic didn’t have much of an impact on budgets, but fewer buyers came to market. Foreign Buyers Spent 27% Less […]
Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s most important stories. Canadian Real Estate Global Property Bubble To Correct, Canada Is The Second Riskiest: Oxford Economics Global real estate prices are forming a bubble, and a big economics firm sees it popping soon. An Oxford Economics analysis shows global home prices are 10% above the […]
American home sales broke their losing streak last month, with sales finally climbing. National Association of Realtors (NAR) data shows existing-home sales jumped in June. The increase breaks the declining trend over the past 4 months, which has seen sales slip lower. At the same time, inventory climbed even more quickly than sales. Inevitably this […]
Lumber prices are still crashing, marking the ninth consecutive week of declines. The cost of the commodity has seen more than a quarter of its value fall in the past month. Since the peak price reached just over two months ago, prices are now down by more than half. As much as they’ve fallen, experts […]
About 6 years ago, deep-pocketed investors and institutions gathered at the Megatrends conference. Blackrock CEO Laurance Fink told them something that seemed unconventional in 2015. The two greatest stores of wealth internationally today is [one] contemporary art…,” said the $6 trillion asset manager. “And two… apartments in Manhattan, apartments in Vancouver, [and apartments] in London.” […]
Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s top stories. Canadian Real Estate The Canadian Property Bubble Is Now The Second Biggest In The World: Bloomberg Bloomberg ranked the world’s largest real estate bubbles, with Canada taking second spot. Topping the list was New Zealand (#1), Canada (#2), and Sweden (#3). The UK (#5) and […]
The Canadian property bubble is now receiving some international attention. Bloomberg Economics ranked housing bubbles across the OECD. Second on that list is Canada, which came in just a few points under New Zealand, the king of froth. Global Property Bubbles Are Synchronizing Countries that made headlines for frothy home prices recently, were the largest […]
