by admin | Apr 10, 2019 | Buy|Rent|Sell
Metro Montreal?s housing market has strung together an impressive streak: Home sales have increased for 49 straight months. And in March, it didn?t take much to keep the streak alive. Sales increased 1 percent on a year-over-year basis to a total of 5,710 residential...
by admin | Apr 8, 2019 | Buy|Rent|Sell
Household income growth is grinding to a halt in Canada, and that?s bad news for future economic growth as a whole and the housing market in particular, suggests a recent report from Desjardins Economics. Desjardins Deputy Chief Economist Mathieu D?Anjou notes in the...
by admin | Apr 8, 2019 | Market News
The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) insists its forthcoming First-Time Home Buyer Initiative can help participants in Toronto and Vancouver after critics of the program said it won?t provide relief in the country?s most-expensive markets. ?It may not be...
by admin | Apr 8, 2019 | Market News
A quarter of Canadian homeowners are ?house poor,? a new RBC-commissioned Ipsos survey suggests. ?House poor refers to Canadians who overextend themselves and spend an unusually large proportion of their total income (roughly 30?40% or more) on home ownership,? an RBC...