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Canadian Housing Bubble

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...

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 04.12.2013 | Canada British Columbia
Melissa Carr

Last week we compared what your money would buy you in Vancouver vs. Newfoundland. This week, we are looking on Prince Edward Island.

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...

Down, Down, Down..

The Huffington Post Canada | Posted 01.15.2013 | Canada Business

Canadian home sales plunged 17.4 per cent in December compared to the month before, but prices managed to eke out a small, 1.6-per-cent increase, acco...

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. ...

Vancouver Home Sales Plunge

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 03.05.2013 | Canada British Columbia

VANCOUVER - The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver says home sales fell sharply in December compared with a year ago.The board sales home sales we...

Vancouver Home Sales Cool Off More

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 02.03.2013 | Canada British Columbia

VANCOUVER - November home sales in the Vancouver area fell 28.6 per cent compared with a year ago as what was once the country's hottest real estate m...

Fear, Not Foreigners, Drove Vancouver Housing Bubble: Analyst

The Huffington Post B.C. | Jesse Ferreras | Posted 12.15.2012 | Canada British Columbia

Fear, not foreign investors inflated Vancouver's housing bubble, says a California-based real estate analyst who has kept a close, and accurate, watch...

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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...

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. ...

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...

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 ...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

'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...

Mortgage Rates Hit All-Time Lows .. And Why That's Bad News

The Huffington Post Canada | Daniel Tencer | Posted 08.02.2012 | Canada Business

Canada’s fiscal policymakers are working to cool off the country’s overheated real estate market, tightening lending restrictions and warning buye...

Banks Rated 'Negative' On Real Estate Bubble Fears

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 09.29.2012 | Canada Business

TORONTO - Standard & Poor's Ratings Services has revised its outlook from stable to negative on seven Canadian banks over concerns about unsustainably...

Be Very Afraid Of The Canadian Housing Bubble..

CBC | Don Pittis | Posted 04.16.2012 | Canada Business

I want you to be afraid. Very afraid of the Canadian housing market. I want people who are considering buying a house in Canada to be the most frig...