The Canadian and Toronto housing market just keeps getting hotter. Home prices in the Greater Vancouver area have surged 30% year over year in May, up from 15% at the end of 2015, according to the bank’s June 2016 Financial System Review. Meanwhile, prices in the Greater Toronto area are growing by 15% YoY, […]
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Canada Shows Signs of Housing Bubble, Bloomberg Reports in 2019
Canada and New Zealand are the most vulnerable economies to a correction in house prices, with Australia and the U.K. also drawing concern, according to new research from Bloomberg Economics. Seeking to build a “housing bubble dashboard,” economist Niraj Shah studied ratios of house prices to rent and income as well as inflation-adjusted […]
Toronto housing slowdown reasons Bank of Canada showed
Toronto housing slowdown reasons Bank of Canada showed The Bank of Canada found the prices of the housing market went up way out of affordability range for buyers. The Bank estimated. that between 2015 and 2018, the rising cost of home ownership would have lowered annual home sales nationwide by a hefty 56,000 […]
Toronto home sales decline in January, 2018, may point to return to a normal market
Toronto home sales decline in January, 2018. The prices appear relatively flat and the house sales were down about 40 per cent over the last two weeks in February, 2018, in the Toronto area compared to the same period in 2017, while condo sales dropped about 30 per cent, said Pasalis, real estate broker. […]
Toronto home prices drop more in August, 2017
The Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB) reported that the average cost of a home in August — $732,292 (including all house sorts and condos) — was still up 3 per cent or about $20,000 to August, 2016. But that is still down about 20 per cent, or $187,000 lower than April, 2017 when the average […]