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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...

Jesse Ferreras

How Canada's Housing Crash Could Take The Economy Down With It

HuffingtonPost.com | Jesse Ferreras | Posted 04.20.2013 | Canada Business

Canada's housing market is falling in the country's major cities and it could very well drag the economy down with it, a prominent housing analyst sai...

5 Tips For Selling A Home In 2013

CP | Sheryl Ubelacker, The Canadian Press | Posted 02.20.2013 | Canada Style

TORONTO - So you've decided to take the plunge and make 2013 the year to sell your home.Maybe you want to move up the property ladder into something r...

Canadian Housing Markets Where You Do NOT Want To Buy

The Huffington Post Canada | Posted 12.20.2012 | Canada Business

The Canadian Real Estate Association released its latest home sales data on Monday, showing a nearly 12-per-cent year-on-year drop in the number of ho...

On National Housing Day, Many Are Without

Habitat for Humanity Canada | Posted 01.22.2013 | Canada Impact
Habitat for Humanity Canada

Homeownership rates have declined among Canada's lowest-income group. For that reason, today, on National Housing Day, I strongly encourage you to consider donating your next dollar, or volunteering your next hour, to help a family move closer to homeownership. It's to everyone's benefit.

The Good News Behind Canada's Falling House Prices

CP | Sunny Freeman, The Canadian Press | Posted 01.21.2013 | Canada Business

TORONTO - The cost of home ownership became more affordable in the most recent quarter due to a modest decline in home prices and gains in Canadian ho...

Housing Market Feels A Chill

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 01.21.2013 | Canada Business

TORONTO - There's mounting evidence October was a weak month for sales of Canadian housing.A new monthly analysis by Teranet shows Canadian housing pr...

WATCH: In the Kitchen with Mr. MadDogg

NFB | Oisin Curran | Posted 12.03.2012 | Canada British Columbia

From the NFB, Here At Home is an interactive documentary offering a look inside At Home, a radical experiment to end chronic homelessness. Led by the ...

SEE: The Most Expensive Houses For Sale In Edmonton

The Huffington Post Canada | Posted 02.27.2013 | Canada Alberta

More evidence of a cooling housing market in Canada was provided, as a report by the federal mortgage insurer states that the pace of home building i...

Toronto’s Incredible Disappearing Condo Boom

The Huffington Post Canada | Posted 11.02.2012 | Canada Business

The evidence is building that Toronto’s long-booming condo market is experiencing a sudden and sharp downturn. Market research group Urbanation r...

The Most Expensive Houses For Sale In Calgary

The Huffington Post Canada | Posted 02.27.2013 | Canada Alberta

A bill introduced by the province last week will make it mandatory for home builders to guarantee their product. Bill 5 proposes labour and materia...

Toronto High-Rise Construction Doubles New York City

The Huffington Post Canada | Daniel Tencer | Posted 10.24.2012 | Canada Business

Toronto’s condo construction boom has made the city “North America’s new high-rise metropolis,” says a study from a real estate research group...

WATCH: Heart Of Hell

NFB | Oisin Curran | Posted 10.23.2012 | Canada British Columbia

From the NFB, Here At Home is an interactive documentary offering a look inside At Home, a radical experiment to end chronic homelessness. Led by the ...

Condo Sales Plunge Again, But This Time Prices Fall Too

The Huffington Post Canada | Daniel Tencer | Posted 10.16.2012 | Canada Business

Condo prices in Toronto have finally stopped climbing. After months of weakness in sales numbers, prices are now coming down in what some observers...

New Rules Behind Housing Drop: CREA

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 12.15.2012 | Canada Business

OTTAWA - Despite a slight recovery from August, home sales in September fell 15.1 per cent from a year ago due to tighter mortgage lending rules and a...

Wow: Home Prices Still Rising

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 12.11.2012 | Canada Business

OTTAWA - Statistics Canada says its new housing price index rose 0.2 per cent in August, after a 0.1 per cent increase in July.The combined metropolit...

The Most Expensive Houses For Sale In Canada

The Huffington Post Canada | Daniel Tencer | Posted 10.10.2012 | Canada Business

Canada's housing market is under severe pressure, particularly the markets in Toronto and Vancouver. Sales of new homes in Toronto fell nearly 70 per ...

Bubble Bursting Nationwide: Report

CP | Julian Beltrame, The Canadian Press | Posted 11.24.2012 | Canada Business

OTTAWA - Canada's housing market appears to be cooling across the board in the face of tighter mortgage rules that affect many first-time buyers of mo...

Should We Stop Encouraging Home Ownership?

CBC | Posted 11.24.2012 | Canada Business

Home ownership is often connected to the notion of living the "American dream." But it is as much a part of Canadian identity as it is in the U.S. ...

High-Rise Living: Canada's New Reality

CP | Dene Moore, The Canadian Press | Posted 11.19.2012 | Canada Business

VANCOUVER - For eleven months, Lia Cosco had a place to call home in Vancouver — all 26 square metres of it.A one-room cubbyhole little bigger than ...

What's Softening Our Economy? Where To Begin...

CP | Julian Beltrame, The Canadian Press | Posted 11.18.2012 | Canada Business

OTTAWA - Canada's economy has entered a "soft patch" amid a sharp slowdown in home construction and sales, poor exports and weak job creation, the TD ...

Sukkahville 2012 -- Architects for Change

Marilyn Lazar | Posted 11.13.2012 | Canada Impact
Marilyn Lazar

On a recent summer evening, a dozen professionals from a variety of walks gathered in the boardroom of an architectural firm in downtown Toronto. A series of drawings mounted on boards were arranged for viewing. All present were volunteering their time to peruse submissions for Sukkahville 2012, a design competition conceived to draw attention to the issues of affordable housing in Toronto.

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...

Leave The Emotions At The Door When House Hunting

Brennan Aguanno and Anna Kemp | Posted 10.21.2012 | Canada Business
Brennan Aguanno and Anna Kemp

An article in The Atlantic entitled "The 11 Ways That Consumers Are Hopeless at Math" reveals how businesses use fact and psychology to persuade shoppers into making purchases they normally wouldn't make. They're tricks some Canadians face at the mall, the car dealership and even the grocery store. But what about the housing market? Are Canadian house hunters having the wool pulled over their eyes? Whether you're buying, selling or just window shopping, here are three things to consider.

House Prices Keep Climbing

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 10.09.2012 | Canada Business

OTTAWA - Statistics Canada says its price index for new homes rose 0.2 per cent in June, following a 0.3 per cent increase in May.The largest May-to-J...