Canada’s housing correction “appears to be underway,” Toronto-Dominion Bank’s chief economist said Tuesday, one day after data showed national home sales plummeted in August. Craig Alexander and a team of economists said a combination of market fatigue, stricter mortgage lending and a deterioration in housing affordability are behind a slowdown in Canadian home sales. The […]
Yearly Archives: 2012Ottawa, ON, September 17, 2012 – According to statistics released today by The Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA), national resale housing activity dropped sharply from July to August 2012. Highlights: Home sales down 5.8% from July to August. Actual (not seasonally adjusted) activity stood 8.9% below levels in August 2011. Number of newly listed homes […] The unrelenting demand for the Holy Grail of housing — a simple house in the midst of all those glass and steel condos — helped push up GTA house prices 6.5 per cent in August, despite a 12.5 per cent downturn in sales. And the biggest impact, by far, was on the downtown Toronto condo […] Canada’s three largest housing markets have undergone “considerable softening” just since May, largely thanks to the condo boom, according to the Teranet-National Bank House Price Index for July. Toronto resale home prices are still gaining ground, but at less than half the 9.2 per cent year over year gain they racked up in July, says […] A new condo report suggests first-time buyers, retirees and population growth will continue to fuel demand and price growth for the compact living spaces over the next few years. The study by Genworth Canada found that average condo resale prices are expected to rise next year in seven of the eight metropolitan centres studied. Prices […] |
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