Real Estate Trends

The Canadian real estate market has been arguably overpriced, especially in cities like Vancouver and the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). Housing prices have skyrocketed as inflation, supply chain setbacks, the pandemic, and other economic factors continue to drive costs up. As policy interest rates continue to rise, there has been speculation about what impact this […]

  On July 14, the Bank of Canada (BoC) announced that it will hold its current level of policy rate until the inflation objective is sustainably achieved. The overnight rate remains the same at the effective lower bound of 0.25%. The Bank Rate remains at 0.5% and the deposit rate at 0.25%. Quantitative easing (QE) […]

Bank of Canada Announcement The Bank of Canada has decided to hold on to lower overnight rates of 0.25% with a bank rate of 0.50% and a deposit rate of 0.25%. The Bank maintains exceptional forward guidance on the path of the overnight rate, reinforced and supplemented by the Bank's quantitative easing (QE) program. These […]

According to Mortgage Professionals Canada's report 'Rapidly Evolving Expectations in the Housing Market', there has been no change in Canadian's desire to be homeowners despite the pandemic. Instead, there has been an increase in the number of Canadians who plan to buy their first home within the year and a drop in the percentage of […]

In Ontario, as in the rest of the country, people have been leaving the cities for homes in the suburbs and further afield for more space and green areas. Has this affected condo construction? How much did house sales increase? What happened to prices and what is the projection for 2021? Find out in the […]