Tag Archive: home prices

6.2%. That’s how much Canada’s average home price could rise in 2020, according to CREA. The national average home price is already up 8.4% in the last 12 months. A country-wide average doesn’t tell the whole story, of course. The Prairies and Newfoundland are seeing much softer markets. And,economists’ 2020 consensus price growth estimate is just 3%. But given we’re...

New data has more than a few observers second guessing Ottawa’s latest mortgage clampdown. RE/MAX’s 2018 Spring Market Trends Report quantifies the by-products coming from one of the biggest mortgage rule changes ever, the uninsured mortgage stress test. The data beg the question, are the side effects worse than the government’s medicine? More Buyers Are Being Hamstrung One in four...