Canadian housing market won’t crash like the U.S.
The Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada conducted a study to see if Canada’s housing market shared the same fate as the United States, with regards to the 2008-09 bubble and crash.
5 Canadian housing markets at risk
The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) released its quarterly Housing Market Assessment (HMA), announcing overall problematic conditions, despite a few housing markets making an improvement in the last three months. “While the overall
How Women Fare in Canadian Cities
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives this month released “The Best and Worst Places to Be a Woman in Canada: The Gender Gap in Canada’s 25 Biggest Cities.” The study looks at the gender gap in the largest 25 metropolitan areas in the country,
Nearly half of Canadian millennials believe homeownership is a ‘pipedream’
Though millennials may be the most educated and making a decent amount of money, homeownership still seems like a “pipedream” to many of them, according to the results of a new poll commissioned by KPMG.
Canadian newcomers play a key role in fuelling housing demand
According to the survey results, newcomers account for 21% of all homebuyers in Canada. If the international migration level remains the same, newcomers are expected to buy 680,000 homes in Canada over the next five years.
WOW Euro Towns: European-Style Living in Canadian Wine Country
In the heart of Ontario’s wine country, just south of the historic Niagara-on-the-Lake community, and along the border of the Niagara Escarpment and Twenty Valley lies Pinewood’s latest residential project, WOW Euro Towns. These European-style homes are
Toronto is the First Canadian 2030 District!
Very recently, it was announced that downtown Toronto has become the first 2030 District outside of the United States. This means that the downtown area bordered by Lake Ontario, Bathurst, Dupont, and the Don Valley is aiming to decrease its greenhouse
Expect many new home releases and openings this summer
There has been a lot of speculation about supply and demand in the world of Canadian real estate, specifically in Southern Ontario. A couple months of listings increasing in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) resale market and a drop in sales has some people
Let’s get real about foreign ownership in Toronto
Foreign ownership in the housing market is a sticky wicket. As Canadians, we pride ourselves on our small-l liberal ideologies — we are loath to discriminate. To do so on the basis of “foreignness” in particular goes against the fundamental beliefs of
