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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 ...

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 ...

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, ...