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The average Canadian's debt-to-income ratio amounted to 145% after the home prices hiked five times, the average persons' after-tax income. The report from Vanier Institute said that the mortgage arrears were up by 50%, although the absolute number of arrears was still ultra-low by international standards. The media suggests increase in ...

Toronto housing starts have risen for three months in a row, CMHC says in a report released this week. The seasonally adjusted annual rate of total housing starts rose 13% in October from the month prior, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. says, to a total of 34,200 units. Single-detached starts have remained stable, but condo starts have once ...

The global economic downturn is a mixed blessing for home buyers - if you're lucky enough to hang on to your job, you should be in a much better position to buy a house, according to a report released Thursday by RBC Economics. "Declining consumer confidence amid dimming employment prospects and the turmoil in credit markets have had a ...

When the Toronto and GTA housing market was hot, bidding wars forced many buyers to put in offers without conditions to increase their chances of being accepted. This, combined with unprecedented increases in home prices, scared many first-time buyers out of the market. But the economic downturn changed all that. As housing prices ...

Gloomy economic predictions are making us a lot more depressed than we need to be. That's a view expressed by several policy analysts in the latest issue of Policy Options, a Montreal-based journal.With so much attention in Canada paid to American news, it's easy to see why Canadians have been spooked. But while things are difficult here ...

TREB Members reported 2,577 sales in December 2008, compared to the 4,646 recorded during the same month in 2007, and the 4,447 recorded in December 2006, TREB President Maureen O’Neill announced today. “Sales for the whole of 2008 were 74,552, compared to the 93,193 recorded in 2007, and the 83,084 recorded during 2006.” The ...

The Greater Toronto Area resale housing market reported 5,155 sales in October, Toronto Real Estate Board President Maureen O’Neill announced. This represents a 35% decline from the 7,915 sales reported in October 2007 and a 25% decrease from the 6,876 transactions that took place during the same period two years ago. In the City of Toronto, ...

The ease with which a Canadian could sell a home tightened up sharply last month, as the global financial crisis sapped consumer confidence and economic growth slowed. Reflecting this, Canada's costliest cities for housing have suffered significant price declines from this time last year. From Toronto to Vancouver, the country's ...

The drop in Canadian home prices in September may not be as severe as it seemed, TD Securities said on Wednesday, bolstering the case that the country is not headed for a U.S.-style housing meltdown. TD, a unit of Toronto-Dominion Bank argued in a report that home prices fell 1.3 percent in major Canadian markets in September, not the dramatic 6.2 ...

The market crisis along the south border has many homebuyers wondering how it will affect the housing market in Canada, but Canadian market analysts feel the problems the U.S. is experiencing should have little impact on real estate in this country.Canada is not expected to experience the same downturn as the U.S. market for many reasons. First, ...