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Canada Isn’t Keen On Foreign Buyer and Vacancy Taxes After US Warns Retaliation

March 1, 2022

Canadian politicians promoted a number of housing affordability measures during their campaign. The ones played up the most were vacancy taxes and non-resident speculation measures. Now that they’re in office, they aren’t so keen on actually implementing any of them. This might be due to a piece of paper buried pre-election — a threat of […]

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Canada

New Data Shows Canada Still Has 1.3 Million Vacant Homes, Some Improvements Seen

February 16, 2022

Canada’s vacant home problem is improving but not very quickly. Statistics Canada (Stat Can) Census 2021 data reveals vacant homes fell from 2016. Resort towns have the highest share of vacant homes. This occurred despite the boom in year round residents in these cities. Let’s take a dive into the data.  Canada’s Vacant Homes The […]

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Top Stories

This Week’s Top Stories: Canada’s 1.3 Million Vacant Homes, and Investors Bought 25% of Real Estate In Ontario

October 24, 2021

Time for your cheat on this week’s most important stories. Canadian Real Estate The World Has Millions Of Vacant Homes, And 1.3 Million Are In Canada: OECD Millions of homes sit vacant across the world, and Canada is one of the worst offenders. OECD data shows 1.34 million vacant homes in Canada, the fifth highest […]

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Canada Will Almost Certainly Ban Foreign Buyers, As Both Major Parties Promise

August 24, 2021

Foreign speculators looking to buy a home in Canada might encounter a few hiccups in the next few years. The country is in the middle of a snap election, and housing is the hot topic — especially foreign ownership. Just this morning, the ruling Liberal Party announced they would ban non-resident buyers. This is the […]

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Toronto

Over A Third of Toronto Real Estate Investors Plan On Selling Due To Vacant Home Tax

February 16, 2021

Toronto’s vacancy tax may have a big impact on real estate investors, according to a local board survey. The Toronto Regional Real Estate Board (TRREB) released the results of their survey, conducted by IPSOS in the fall. More than half of investors said they’ll either sell or rent their unit if a vacancy tax is […]

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Toronto

Toronto Real Estate Board Finds 2% of City’s Homeowners Have Vacant Homes

Toronto Real Estate Board Finds 2% of City’s Homeowners Have A Vacant Home
January 31, 2018

The Toronto Real Estate Board conducted its annual survey, and hidden in the pile of results was how effective a vacant home tax would be at creating inventory for the city.

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Canada | Global

Urban Land Banking 101: A Supervillain’s Guide To Ruining Local Real Estate Markets

Urban Land Banking 101 - A Supervillain's Guide To Ruining Local Real Estate Markets
November 3, 2017

Due to my background, I’m invited to quite a few privileged conversations. One of those occurred a few months ago, when a Beijing-based money manager sent my office an email, and asked if I could meet him in Toronto for coffee. He was fairly vague, but said he just wanted to have a casual conversation […]

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Canada | US

Canada Has Twice As Many Vacant Homes As The US Did Before The Crash

Canada Has Twice As Many Vacant Homes As The US Did Before The Crash
July 4, 2017

Canada has twice the ratio of vacant homes the US did before the great recession, indicating Canadian real estate may be in hypersupply.

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Global

This Is Where The Uber Rich Are Buying (and Selling) Second Homes

This Is Where The Uber Rich Are Buying (and Selling) Second Homes
June 14, 2017

Old money cities like London still top the list for the uber rich’s secondary home of choice, but some new cities are popping up on the list.

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