Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s top stories. Canadian Real Estate Canadian Economists Are Skeptical of Job Strength, Discouraged Workers Jump 44% Canada’s job market continues to grow but economists warn context is important. The country added 64k jobs in September, which would have been a blowup job report pre-2020. A recent population […]
Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s top stories. Canadian Real Estate Canadian Mortgage Rates To Go Higher For Longer As Banks See Smaller Cuts Canadian mortgage borrowers may want to brace themselves for even higher interest costs. The Government of Canada (GoC) 5-year bond yield continues to climb rapidly, with this month representing […]
Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s top stories. Canadian Real Estate Canadian Mortgage Rates Set To Rise As Yields Go “Higher For Longer”: BMO Global bond yields are rising, and they’re about to take Canadian mortgage rates with them. The Government of Canada (GoC) 5-year bond hit a multi-year high, and other yields […]
Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s top stories. Canadian Real Estate Canadian Real Estate Balancing In A “Meaningful” Way, Pause Unlikely To Boost Market: BMO The Canadian real estate market is back to cooling after a brief jump in activity post-rate pause. Existing home sales fell, and new listings have been climbing to […]
Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s top stories. Canadian Real Estate Canadian Housing Investment Is Correcting At The Fastest Rate Since The 80s Bubble Pop Canadian housing investment has never dropped this fast without popping a bubble. Residential investment dropped to $133.1 billion in Q3 2023, a 13.8% decline from last year. The […]
Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s top stories. Canadian Real Estate Canada’s Student Visa Strategy Takes Off, Nearly 1 In 48 People On A Study Permit Canada’s strategy to grow its study permit business has taken off, helping its population soar. Study permits climbed 35% in Q2 2023, putting the country on track […]
Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s top stories. Canadian Real Estate Canadian GDP To Show Slowing Growth, Or The BoC May Hike Rates: RBC Canada’s largest bank is warning investors that the country’s economic output is slowing. RBC expects next week’s official Q2 2023 GDP growth data to show a sharp deceleration in […]
Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s top stories. Canadian Real Estate The Global Era of Cheap Credit May Be Over, Home Prices To Adjust: BMO One of Canada’s largest banks sees the global era of cheap credit coming to an end. Post-Global Financial Crisis (GFC) the world was flooded with liquidity— pressuring real […]
Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s top stories. Canadian Real Estate Canada’s New Housing Minister Has Already Demonstrated He’s Clueless Canada’s housing minister has only been in office for a few days, but he’s already stumbled. The minister promised what we’re calling “quantum affordability”—home prices will both fall and stay at the same […]
Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s top stories. Canadian Real Estate Canada’s Real Estate Correction Is Far From Over: Oxford Economics Canada’s real estate correction is only half over, warns a prominent research firm. Oxford Economics sees the Spring bounce fading, and the correction resuming. Prices are forecast to fall another 10% by […]
