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Absurd Vancouver Property: Vancouver vs. Toronto

Melissa Carr | Posted 05.20.2013 | Canada British Columbia
Melissa Carr

We're almost halfway across Canada in out 'Absurd Vancouver Properties' series. This week we're focused on three Toronto houses and what domestic perks they hold against f*%king ridiculously priced properties sprinkled throughout Vancouver.

This Is A Healthy Housing Bust..

CP | Julian Beltrame, The Canadian Press | Posted 05.14.2013 | Canada Business

OTTAWA - Finance Minister Jim Flaherty is dismissing fears about Canada's housing market, saying the current slowdown is welcome news and that there i...

Getting A Mortgage Could Get Even Harder

The Huffington Post Canada | Daniel Tencer | Posted 05.13.2013 | Canada Business

Landing an affordable mortgage may become even more difficult in Canada if the country’s banking regulator moves forward with rules reducing the len...

Guru Who Made Bank Off U.S. Housing Crash Sets Sights On Canada

The Huffington Post Canada | Daniel Tencer | Posted 05.09.2013 | Canada Business

A hedge fund manager who became widely-known for predicting and making money off the bursting of the U.S. housing bubble is warning that Canada’s re...

Absurd Vancouver Property Of The Week

Melissa Carr | Posted 05.01.2013 | Canada British Columbia
Melissa Carr

Last week we had a look at properties in Halifax, Nova Scotia. This week we move on to New Brunswick, where $1.1 million can buy you a country estate, located on over one square kilometre of untouched land, including a seven-acre spring-fed lake. What will it buy you in Vancouver?

We're Number 1 In Housing Bubbles!

The Atlantic | Posted 03.28.2013 | Canada Business

Canada has a new worthwhile initiative. After years of booming prices, that bastion of politeness north of the border is looking to avoid a catastroph...

The Economist's Shocking Numbers About Canada's Housing Market

The Huffington Post Canada | Posted 01.11.2013 | Canada Business

House price overvaluation “is especially marked in Canada,” says a new report on the state of the world’s housing market from The Economist. ...

Is This the Year the Toronto Housing Bubble Deflates?

Jenna Em | Posted 03.11.2013 | Canada Business
Jenna Em

My husband and I couldn't believe that simple family homes in the GTA could sell at the same prices that mansions used to! The truth became evident: There was just not an appropriate home for us in the current market at our price point.

Daniel Tencer

Is Canada’s Job Market In A Bubble?

HuffingtonPost.com | Daniel Tencer | Posted 12.08.2012 | Canada Business

Canada’s job market had a stellar November, with 59,000 net positions created — six times what economists had predicted — while the jobless rate...

Housing Market Diving? Mission Accomplished!

CP | Posted 12.03.2012 | Canada Business

OTTAWA — Finance Minister Jim Flaherty is not worried about a housing collapse, saying he is happy he has helped cool the market with the latest rou...

Housing Bust Could Be Good For Economy: CIBC

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 01.29.2013 | Canada Business

TORONTO - One of the country's big banking groups has issued a report saying that a cooling in Canadian house prices may not be all bad news.The CIBC ...

Daniel Tencer

Tories' Mortgage Rules Threaten Economy: Industry Group

HuffingtonPost.com | Daniel Tencer | Posted 11.19.2012 | Canada Business

Ever since Canada’s housing market began swooning earlier this year, mortgage brokers, bankers and real estate agents have been busy telling us that...

Housing Bubble: What $1 Million Will Buy You Across Canada

The Huffington Post Canada | Posted 03.17.2013 | Canada Business

It’s no surprise that there are huge disparities between Canadian regions when it comes to anything having to do with economics, but the scale of th...

Daniel Tencer

ANALYSIS: Housing Crash? Don't Blame These Guys

HuffingtonPost.com | Daniel Tencer | Posted 11.02.2012 | Canada Business

This summer, Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Finance Minister Jim Flaherty took a regulatory hammer to Canada’s housing markets, causing condo sal...

Our Housing Crash Won’t Be Like America’s: CIBC

CP | Posted 12.30.2012 | Canada Business

TORONTO - The news out of Canada's real estate market isn't good, but the country will avoid a U.S.-style real estate meltdown, CIBC said Tuesday. ...

As Housing Bubble Turns To Bust, Prepare For Unemployment Spike

The Huffington Post Canada | Daniel Tencer | Posted 09.26.2012 | Canada Business

A slowdown is coming to Canada’s construction industry, thanks to the cooling housing market, says a new report from the Conference Board of Canada,...

The 20 Coolest, Craziest Condo Buildings Going Up In Toronto

The Huffington Post Canada | Daniel Tencer | Posted 09.25.2012 | Canada Business

Toronto's long heated condo market is slowing down, so much so that a well-known housing market analyst recently described it as "a fly in search of a...

Toronto Home Sales Collapse By 70 Per Cent: Report

Posted 09.25.2012 | Canada Business

House sales in Toronto experienced a 70-per-cent collapse in August, the trade industry group BILD reports. The news comes as debate reaches a feve...

Vancouver Real Estate Prices DROP

The Huffington Post B.C. | Jesse Ferreras | Posted 09.18.2012 | Canada British Columbia

POP! goes the bubble. That may be one reaction that comes out of the news that Vancouver's housing prices dropped sharply in August 2012 compared to t...

Forget Sliding Sales: Toronto Condo Boom FULL STEAM AHEAD

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 11.11.2012 | Canada Business

OTTAWA - The pace of housing starts picked up August, boosted by big multiple-unit projects in Toronto, even as the Canadian real estate market showed...

B.C. Housing Bubble Worse Than California’s: U.S. Market Guru

The Huffington Post Canada | Daniel Tencer | Posted 09.10.2012 | Canada British Columbia

Vancouver’s housing bubble is more extreme today than California’s was a few years ago, says one of the U.S.’s most renowned housing market anal...

Catastrophe Or Boom Times? Depends On Whom You Ask

The Huffington Post Canada | Daniel Tencer | Posted 09.06.2012 | Canada Business

Whether Canada’s real estate market is among the strongest and most resilient in the world, or whether it is on the precipice of a major correction,...

Rachel Mendleson

Canada's Housing Bubble To Burst In A Big Way?

HuffingtonPost.com | Rachel Mendleson | Posted 08.24.2012 | Canada Business

As debate about the stability of the Canadian housing market continues to swirl, a new report has come down firmly on the side of the bubble believers...

'Moderate' Slowdown In Housing Market Coming, Mortgage Insurer Says

CP | Posted 08.14.2012 | Canada Business

OTTAWA - Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. is forecasting a moderate slowdown in new-home construction starts as well as sales of existing housing.The...

Canada's Housing Market To Stay Down For A Decade: Scotia

The Huffington Post Canada | Daniel Tencer | Posted 08.13.2012 | Canada Business

Canada’s house prices are expected to drop and stay down for a decade, says a new report from Scotiabank that also warns of an “adverse shock” t...