Toronto Real Estate TREB Published August, 2019 Resale Market Figures Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB) President Michael Collins announced that Greater Toronto Area REALTORS® reported 7,711 residential sales through TREB’s MLS® System in August, 2019. This result represented a 13.4 per cent increase compared to 6,797 sales reported in August, 2018. On a […]
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Canada Displays Signs of Housing Bubble in 2019, Bloomberg States
Canada and New Zealand are the most vulnerable economies to a correction in house prices, with Australia and the U.K. also drawing concern, according to new research from Bloomberg Economics. Seeking to build a “housing bubble dashboard,” economist Niraj Shah studied ratios of house prices to rent and income as well as inflation-adjusted […]
Canada housing market has become riskier, IMF has warned
Canada’s housing market has become riskier over the past two years, with risk levels similar to those seen during the financial crisis a decade ago, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said in a report released this week. But there is good news: The measures Canadian policymakers have taken over the past several years […]