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Canada's real estate market remains "relatively solid" and should experience a "soft landing" despite the current slowdown and fears of overbuilding in the condominium segment, the country's leading bankers said on January 8. Speaking to a RBC banking conference in Toronto, the country's top bankers said ...

 Greater Toronto REALTORS® reported 7,922 transactions through the TorontoMLS® system in July 2011, representing a 23% increase over July 2010. Total sales through the first seven months of this year amounted to 55,863 – down by 1.3% compared to the same period in 2010. After adjusting for seasonal fluctuations, the July figure ...

Canada’s Big Six banks, says a new Fitch year-end report, remain, like the country itself, stable, with earnings predicted to remain sound and credit costs manageable.Canada’s long-stable banks remain a source of national pride, with their more traditional lending practices and policies.  Liar’s loans need not apply. ...

According to a new survey by TD Canada Trust, more than two-thirds of repeat homebuyers expect their next house purchase won't be their last. Twenty-three per cent of the more than 1,000 participants -- all repeat homebuyers -- said they plan to move again within six years. One in five repeat buyers has owned more than five homes. All ...

Canadians will be spared a U.S.-style wave of foreclosures when the housing market corrects and interest rates rise, according to a report from DBRS Ltd. examining Canada’s $1-trillion mortgage market. DBRS expects housing prices to fall and acknowledges that the soaring trajectory of consumer debt is worrying. But the debt-rating ...