More

Canada Housing

The Dirty Side of Renovating Your House

Hardcore Renos | Posted 06.09.2013 | Canada Living
Read More: Home Renovation, Housing, Renovation, DIY Projects, Diy, Renovations, Construction, Homeowners, Canada Living News
Hardcore Renos

If you are planning a major renovation that involves a lot of waste, make sure you talk to your contractors about how they intend to dispose of the materials and how often it will be collected. It is a major component to consider.

Read Whole Story

Boom In Construction Jobs Leaves Economists Stumped

Financial Post | Posted 06.09.2013 | Canada Business
Read More: Real Estate Canada, Canada Housing, Canada Business News

It’s just a number and only one month of data but the 43,000 jobs created in the construction sector in May has some questioning their math and othe...

Read Whole Story

The Huge Benefits of Home Ownership for Low-Income Families

Habitat for Humanity Canada | Posted 06.04.2013 | Canada Impact
Read More: Habitat for Humanity, Housing Study Canada, Canadian Mortage and Housing Corporation, Cmhc, Affordable Housing Canada, Low-Income Housing Canada, Canada Housing, Canada Impact News
Habitat for Humanity Canada

A home of your own is far more than a financial asset. For low-income families, ownership of a safe and decent home can play a vital role in a family's health and happiness, to the point where fewer sick days are taken and kids are getting better grades in school.

Read Whole Story

Absurd Property Of The Week: Vancouver vs. Winnipeg

Melissa Carr | Posted 05.24.2013 | Canada British Columbia
Read More: Manitoba, Canadian Housing Bubble, Winnipeg, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Housing, Winnipeg Real Estate, Canada Real Estate, Vancouver Real Estate, Real Estate, Canada British Columbia News
Melissa Carr

We're back to our cross-Canada tour and, this week, we're headed to Manitoba. I'm told houses are pretty cheap there, so I thought I'd have a look to find what you could buy for a measly $650K in Winnipeg.

Read Whole Story

Rent Or Buy? Crunching The Numbers

CP | Lauren Krugel, The Canadian Press | Posted 05.23.2013 | Canada Alberta
Read More: Rent or Buy Canada, Calgary MLS, Rent or Buy House, Cp, Buy or Rent, Canada Housing, Alberta Real Estate, Edmonton MLS, Rent or Buy a House, Buy or Rent a House, Rent or Buy, Canada Rent or Buy, Renting a House Alberta, Canada Alberta News

CALGARY - My landlord's email twisted my stomach into knots.She informed me that she plans to sell the bright, spacious, perfectly located condo that ...

Read Whole Story

This Is A Healthy Housing Bust..

CP | Julian Beltrame, The Canadian Press | Posted 05.14.2013 | Canada Business
Read More: Canada Housing Bubble, Canadian Housing Bubble, Real Estate Canada, House Prices Canada, Housing Bubble Canada, Housing Canada, Canada Housing, Jim Flaherty, Canada Real Estate, Jim Flaherty Housing, Housing Slowdown Canada, Housing Correction Canada, Cp, Canada Business News

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

Read Whole Story

Jesse Ferreras

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

HuffingtonPost.com | Jesse Ferreras | Posted 04.20.2013 | Canada Business
Read More: Canada Housing Crash, Canada Housing Prices, Video, Canada Real Estate Prices, Canada Real Estate Bubble, Canada Housing, Vancouver Housing, Canada Housing Sales, Canada Real Estate, Real-Estate-Canada, Vancouver Housing Bubble, Canada Housing Market, Canada Business News

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...

Read Whole Story

5 Tips For Selling A Home In 2013

CP | Sheryl Ubelacker, The Canadian Press | Posted 02.20.2013 | Canada Style
Read More: Home Sale Tips, Video, Real Estate Canada, Home Decor Tips, Cp, Home Sales, Canada Housing, Canada Style News, Home Decor, Sell Your Home, Decor and Home Style, How to Sell Your Home, Canada Home Sales, Canada Style News

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...

Read Whole Story

Canadian Housing Markets Where You Do NOT Want To Buy

The Huffington Post Canada | Posted 12.20.2012 | Canada Business
Read More: Worst Real Estate Markets Canada, Real Estate Canada, Worst Housing Markets Canada, House Prices Canada, Home Prices Vancouver, Canada Housing, Housing Canada, Best Housing Market Canada, Best Real Estate Markets Canada, Home Prices Toronto, Home Prices Canada, Home Sales Canada, Crea, Canada Business News

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...

Read Whole Story

On National Housing Day, Many Are Without

Habitat for Humanity Canada | Posted 01.22.2013 | Canada Impact
Read More: Nonprofits, Stewart Hardacre, Affordable Homes, Housing, Housing Crisis, National Housing Day Canada, Habitat for Humanity Canada, Affordable Housing Canada, Afforable Homes Toronto, Canada Impact News
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.

Read Whole Story

The Good News Behind Canada's Falling House Prices

CP | Sunny Freeman, The Canadian Press | Posted 01.21.2013 | Canada Business
Read More: Video, Rbc Housing Affordability, Canada Housing Affordability, House Prices Canada, Canada House Prices, Housing Affordability Canada, Canada Housing, Housing Affordability Rbc, Cp, Canada Business News

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...

Read Whole Story

Housing Market Feels A Chill

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 01.21.2013 | Canada Business
Read More: Video, Canada Real Estate, Cp, Canada Housing, Canada Housing Market, Canada Housing Prices, Canada Business News

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...

Read Whole Story

WATCH: In the Kitchen with Mr. MadDogg

NFB | Oisin Curran | Posted 12.03.2012 | Canada British Columbia
Read More: Video, Homeless Vancouver, Nfb, Lynne Stopkewich, Vancouver, Maddogg, Vancouver Housing, Vancouver Homeless, Canada Housing, Canada Homeless, Homeless Canada, Mental Health Commission, Here at Home, Canada British Columbia News

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 ...

Read Whole Story

SEE: The Most Expensive Houses For Sale In Edmonton

The Huffington Post Canada | Posted 02.27.2013 | Canada Alberta
Read More: Real Estate Edmonton, Alberta Real Estate, Video, MLS Edmonton, Mls, Most Expensive House Edmonton, Most Expensive Houses Canada, Canada Housing, Most Expensive House Alberta, Real Estate Alberta, Edmonton Expensive Houses, Edmonton Most Expensive Houses, Canada Alberta News

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...

Read Whole Story

Toronto’s Incredible Disappearing Condo Boom

The Huffington Post Canada | Posted 11.02.2012 | Canada Business
Read More: Home Sales Toronto, Condo Market Toronto, Housing Sales Toronto, Condo Sales Canada, Toronto Condo Sales, Canada Housing, Toronto Condo Market, Condo Sales Toronto, Toronto Housing Sales, Urbanation, Oct Condo Sales Toronto 2012, Canada Business News

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

Read Whole Story

The Most Expensive Houses For Sale In Calgary

The Huffington Post Canada | Posted 02.27.2013 | Canada Alberta
Read More: Real Estate Calgary, Alberta Real Estate, Video, Canadian Housing Bubble, Real Estate Canada, Most Expensive House Calgary, Most Expensive Houses Canada, Canada Housing, Creb, Most Expensive House Alberta, Calgary Most Expensive Houses, Calgary Expensive Houses, Canada Alberta News

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...

Read Whole Story

Toronto High-Rise Construction Doubles New York City

The Huffington Post Canada | Daniel Tencer | Posted 10.24.2012 | Canada Business
Read More: Toronto Housing, Housing Market Canada, Toronto High Rises, Cities With the Most Highrises Under Construction, Canada Housing, Housing Market Toronto, Toronto Skyscrapers, Cities With the Most Skyscrapers Under Construction, Toronto Most Skyscrapers Under Construction, Toronto Most Highrises Under Construction, Housing Bubble Toronto, Canada Business News

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...

Read Whole Story

WATCH: Heart Of Hell

NFB | Oisin Curran | Posted 10.23.2012 | Canada British Columbia
Read More: Video, Canada Homelessness, Homeless Vancouver, Lynne Stopkewich, Nfb, Canada Housing, Vancouver Homeless, Mental Health Commission, Here at Home, Canada British Columbia News

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 ...

Read Whole Story

Condo Sales Plunge Again, But This Time Prices Fall Too

The Huffington Post Canada | Daniel Tencer | Posted 10.16.2012 | Canada Business
Read More: Housing Sales Canada, Toronto Real Estate Board, Canada Construction Employment, Condo Sales Toronto, Treb, Canada Housing, Toronto Condo Sales, Canada Business News

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

Read Whole Story

New Rules Behind Housing Drop: CREA

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 12.15.2012 | Canada Business
Read More: Canada Resale Home Sales, New Mortgage Rules, New Mortgage Rules Canada, Canada Housing Sales, Canada Housing, Housing Sales Canada, Canadian Real Estate Association, Canada Home Sales, Resale Home Sales Canada, Home Sales Canada, Crea, Cp, Canada Business News

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...

Read Whole Story

Wow: Home Prices Still Rising

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 12.11.2012 | Canada Business
Read More: New Home Prices Canada, House Prices Toronto, New Housing Price Index, Toronto House Prices, Canada New Home Prices, House Prices Canada, Canada House Prices, Canada Housing, Canada New House Prices, New House Prices Canada, House Prices Calgary, Calgary House Prices, Cp, Canada Business News

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...

Read Whole Story

The Most Expensive Houses For Sale In Canada

The Huffington Post Canada | Daniel Tencer | Posted 10.10.2012 | Canada Business
Read More: Most Expensive House Quebec, Most Expensive House British Columbia, Canadian Housing Bubble, Real Estate Canada, Canada Most Expensive Houses, Most Expensive Houses Canada, Canada Housing, Most Expensive House Alberta, Most Expensive House Ontario, Canada Business News

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 ...

Read Whole Story

Bubble Bursting Nationwide: Report

CP | Julian Beltrame, The Canadian Press | Posted 11.24.2012 | Canada Business
Read More: Canadian Housing Bubble, Housing Bubble Canada, Canada Housing, Housing Canada, House Sales Canada, Canada Real Estate Sales, Real Estate Market Canada, Canada Home Sales, Conference Board of Canada, Canada House Sales, Home Sales Canada, Conference Board Housing, Cp, Canada Business News

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...

Read Whole Story

Should We Stop Encouraging Home Ownership?

CBC | Posted 11.24.2012 | Canada Business
Read More: Home Ownership Canada, Home Ownership Rates Canada, Housing Market Canada, Household Debt Canada, Housing Canada, Canada Housing, Canada Household Debt, Slidepollajax, Canada Home Ownership, Canada Housing Market, Canada Home Ownership Rates, Cbc, Canada Business News

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. ...

Read Whole Story

High-Rise Living: Canada's New Reality

CP | Dene Moore, The Canadian Press | Posted 11.19.2012 | Canada Business
Read More: Canada High-Rise Living, Canada Census Apartment, Canada Census Condos, Condo Market Canada, Canada Housing, Housing Canada, Canada Census High-Rises, Apartment Living Canada, Canada Condo Market, Cp, Canada Business News

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 ...

Read Whole Story