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Real Estate Magazine – Ontario making strides in housing supply, urgent action needed to address affordability crisis: OREA
Mortgage payments nearly twice cost of average rent in Brampton: report (Insauga)
Ontario developers deny they're feeding housing crisis by sitting on land (CBC News)
A new report has identified the Ontario cities where house prices have fallen the most (CP24)
Navigating Ontario’s real estate market: Key insights on new-build house and condo purchases (Guelph Today)
CBC Hamilton – Buying a house in Hamilton costs $300K more than it did 6 years ago, data shows
Financial Post - Housing minister says interest rate cuts will spur building boom Canada’s housing minister says he believes lower interest rates will encourage builders to ramp up their activity, alleviating the country’s crunched supply of homes.
CBC News - January home sales jump 22 per cent from last year's weak start January home sales jumped 22 per cent compared with a year ago, the largest year-over-year increase since May 2021, according to The Canadian Real Estate Association. The association says the increase reflected weakness last year, which saw the worst start to almost any year in the past two decades.
Global News – Canada’s housing market is ‘starting to turn a corner.’ Are prices rising?
Financial Post – Condo market faces 'significant slowdown'
Globe and Mail – Forget downsizing: Canadian seniors staying in large houses well into their 80s, due in part to lack of options
Globe and Mail – What does restoring affordable home ownership actually mean? One economist crunches the numbers
Globe and Mail – January home sales in Canada rise as markets tighten but prices still softening: CREA
CBC News - Home builders group calls for action on mortgage rules, labour shortage Canada is on the right track but won't reach its target of building 5.8 million new homes in the coming decade unless it loosens mortgage rules, addresses the labour shortage and helps to boost production of factory-built homes, says the Canadian Home Builders' Association (CHBA).
Bank of Canada says housing affordability is about boosting supply, not lowering interest rates (CBC News)
Housing affordability won’t return to pre-pandemic levels in the next two years: Desjardins (Yahoo! Finance)
Real estate commission lawsuit expands across Canada (BNN Bloomberg)
What to know if you're considering buying a house with friends (CTV News)
High cost of living forces majority of Ontarians to put necessities before retirement savings (Toronto Star)
Canada’s largest cities saw home sales surge in January (Canadian Mortgage Trends)
Too soon to say when interest rates can come down: Bank of Canada (Canadian Mortgage Trends)
Is it cheaper to rent or buy a house with a monthly mortgage in Canada? Prices analyzed in 26 markets (CTV News)
Canada’s rental market faces historic challenges of record-low vacancy rates and soaring prices: CMHC (Real Estate Magazine)
What history can tell us about soft landings and the pace of rate cuts that usually follow (Canadian Mortgage Trends)
Canadians eager for homeownership, but down payments present another hurdle: report (BNN Bloomberg)
How we measure housing costs helps explain inflation's stubbornness (Yahoo! Finance)
Canada real estate: Income needed to buy a home falls nationwide in January (Yahoo! Finance)
Economists say mortgage costs keep inflation high. So why is the Bank of Canada not cutting interest rates? (Toronto Star)
What kind of home will $1 million buy in Toronto? More than you’ll get in Vancouver, new report finds (Toronto Star)
Unexpected inflation drop won’t hasten Bank of Canada’s rate cut plans, economists say (Canadian Mortgage Trends)
What the latest inflation data suggests about Canada's housing market (CTV News)
Renting? You probably report lower quality of life than homeowners (CBC News)
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Vancouver and Toronto renters lament quality of life more than homeowners: StatCan (Canadian Mortgage Trends)
CMHC reports annual pace of housing starts in January down 10% from December (Canadian Mortgage Trends)
Rent-to-own, tax cuts take centre stage in BC United housing plan (Global News)
Canada’s housing rebound continued in January. What should buyers expect this spring? (Canadian Mortgage Trends)
Canada’s average rent price hit a new record of nearly $2,200 in January (Canadian Mortgage Trends)
Can first-time buyers save Canada’s real estate market? (Real Estate Magazine)
Latest in mortgage news: 50% of Canadians say high interest rates are negatively impacting their love life (Canadian Mortgage Trends)
National Post – Federal government extends foreign buyer ban on Canadian homes to 2027
CBC News – Government extends ban on foreign buying of Canadian housing
CBC News – Bank of Canada says housing affordability is about boosting supply, not lowering interest rates
Financial Post – Canada is underestimating the number of new homes needed — by a lot, says CIBC
Financial Post – Buyer's remorse? Homeowners in these cities are counting their losses
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