Time for your weekly cheat sheet on this week’s most important stories. Canadian Real Estate Canada Is Considering A Risky Move To Fund More Mortgages With Foreign Capital Covered bonds are an increasingly popular method banks use to fund mortgages. Virtually non-existent in Canada before the Great Recession, they now fund 9% of mortgages at […]
Time for your weekly cheat sheet on this week’s top stories. Canadian Real Estate Canadian Credit Is Decelerating, Mortgage Growth Falls To Lowest Rate In 17 Years The Canadian credit cycle appears to be heading into its contraction phase. The balance of household debt reached $2.119 trillion at the end of May, up 4.4% from […]
Time for your weekly cheat sheet on this week’s most important stories. Canadian Real Estate CMHC: 55% Of Toronto And Vancouver Real Estate Buyers Were In A Bidding War The CMHC took a novel approach to finding out why Toronto and Vancouver buyers were so frenzied – they asked them. Conducting a survey of recent […]
Time for your weekly cheat sheet on the most important stories in Canadian real estate. Canadian Real Estate Can You Tell If These Central Bank Quotes Are About Canadian Real Estate In 2018, Or The US Before The Great Recession? The real estate industry listens very closely to the Bank of Canada, but how useful […]
Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s most important stories. Canadian Real Estate IMF Warns That Canadian Real Estate Is A “Key Domestic Risk” The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is warning that real estate is a “key domestic” risk to Canada. Changes in price expectations, increasing mortgage rates, and unemployment could all be triggers […]
Time for your weekly cheat sheet on the most important real estate stories. Canadian Real Estate Canadian Mortgage Growth Grinds To A Halt, Slowest Growth Since 2001 Mortgage debt growth is slowing very quickly across Canada. Bank of Canada numbers show mortgage debt stood at $1.528 trillion, up $2 billion from the month before. This […]
Time for your weekly cheat sheet on this week’s top real estate stories. Canadian Real Estate Canadians Borrowed Another Billion Against Their Homes Over A 31 Day Period Canadians are increasingly tapping their home equity for short-term loans. Total HELOC balances reached $284.64 billion in outstanding debt. That means Canadians racked up an extra $994 […]
Time for your cheat sheet on the most important real estate stories this week. Canadian Real Estate Canadians Have $201 Billion In HELOC Debt, And Over 30% Is In Toronto And Vancouver Canadians are rapidly borrowing against the values in their home. The outstanding balance of Home equity line of credits (HELOCs) across Canada is […]
Time for your weekly cheat sheet on the most important real estate stories. Canadian Real Estate BoC: 8% Of Canadian Households Owe More Than 20% Of The $2.1 Trillion In Debt The Bank of Canada updated the public on household debt numbers, as well as gave some insights this week. The total balance of household […]
The US Fed Thinks Canadian Real Estate Buyers Are “Exuberant,” and The CMHC Says Toronto and Vancouver Are Highly Vulnerable, Overvalued Markets
