Just months ago, the prospect of an additional Bank of Canada rate hike by the end of 2020 was very... Read More
Many Canadians are taking an increasingly gloomy view of their finances and the overall economy heading into 2019. That’s according... Read More
Led by RBC, all of the big banks have now hiked their posted rates since last week by up to... Read More
Among external factors that affect housing markets, two are by far the most important and both are more or less... Read More
Will Dunning, Chief Economist for Mortgage Professionals Canada, has released his Housing Market Digests for August 2017, both for Canada... Read More
Keynes is alive and well and living in Australia. This conclusion (a paraphrase of the famous quote by economist George... Read More
June brought more declines in sales and prices to the Toronto real estate market, but are we in the midst... Read More
The dramatic rise in Canadian house prices has been making headlines almost daily. And for good reason: prices in and... Read More
When Interest Rates Inevitably Rise… In a new report on “household indebtedness and financial vulnerability,” the Parliamentary Budget Office (“PBO”)... Read More
When Interest Rates Inevitably Rise… Manulife Bank hit an absolute home run with its report on consumer debt. The report... Read More