by admin | Jan 31, 2020 | Market News
Toronto region new home sales returned to the land of the living in 2019 after declining to a 22-year low only a year earlier. There were 36,471 new homes sold across the GTA in 2019, a 47 percent increase over 2018?s total, which was the region?s lowest result since...
by admin | Jan 31, 2020 | Market News
The sizeable share of the Canadian population that was born since 1995 (28%) is emerging as a generation with no problem living on credit. A new report from Transunion shows that 8% of the Generation Zs in Canada are over 18 and of these 63% are credit active. Of the...
by admin | Jan 25, 2020 | Market News
The Bank of Canada announced this week that it would leave its mortgage market-influencing key interest rate unchanged again. This development ? or lack thereof ? did not come as a surprise to economists who pay close attention to the central bank?s moves. It was,...
by admin | Jan 23, 2020 | Market News
The Canadian oilsands city of Fort McMurray has topped a ranking of the world?s most affordable housing markets. The Albertan city leads affordability in the 2020 Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey which rates middle-income housing affordability...
by admin | Jan 16, 2020 | Market News
It was a busy December in housing markets across the country, suggesting that when compared to last year, not as many house hunters stayed home for the holidays. They bought them instead. While the nearly 23 percent increase in total Canadian home sales as reported by...