Canada: News Archive

MAY 2009

• No boom in Canadian property market for at least four years - Property Wire
• Home sales jump in April - Globe And Mail

FEBRUARY 2009

• Once sizzling, Toronto feels sudden chill - IHT
• Real estate sales in Canada predicted to fall back to 2000 levels - Property Wire

JANUARY 2009

• Bank Of Canada trims key interest rate to record low 1% - RTT News
• As expected, Canada cuts key rate to 1% - New YORK Times
• City's wealthy hit by recession 'Everyone is sitting on the fence' - Calgary Herald
• Real estate sales dropped 35 per cent in ’08 - Vancouver Sun

NOVEMBER 2008

• Prices in Canada decline, raising fears of deflation - New York Times
• Real estate rebound predicted for 2010 - Ottawa Business
• Toronto home sales plunge 35 per cent - The Star

OCTOBER 2008

• Forecasts predict Canada will miss the recession - Nubricks
• Average house prices inch up in Q3 - Landcorp

MAY 2008

• Canadians and thirty-something Europeans boosting US property market - Property Wire
• Canadian City trends (pdf) - Royal Bank of Canada
• Olympic factor already raising property prices in Vancouver - Property Wire
• Canada's top second homes spots - Forbes

APRIL 2008

• Housing starts fall, but stay above the 200,000-unit mark - Royal Bank of Canada
• Is Toronto's housing boom over? - Globe and Mail
• Georgian, clean and fresh and definitive - The Globe and Mail
• Free of planners in the land of the free - The Globe and Mail

FEBRUARY 2008

• Canadian home prices almost doubled in past 10 yrs - Reuters
• Toronto downtown global city profile(pdf - requires free registration) - Jones Lang LaSalle

OCTOBER 2007

• Vancouver has the most expensive housing market in Canada - IHT
• Interest rates to remain steady through 2009: Bank of Canada - AFP
• Canada? It’s a shore thing - Telegraph UK
• Edmonton house prices slip - Edmonton Journal

AUGUST 2007

• Quebec City: 400 candles, and a yearlong blowout - IHT
• Boom continues: Real estate group predicts record home sales in Canada - Canadian Press
• Housing Prices up 13.1% from year ago - National Post
• Rental rifts in BC soar 40 per cent - Times Colonist

JULY 2007

• How to get more rental housing in Vancouver - Straight.com
• Suburbia goes solar - ReportonBusiness.com
• Lessons from Hamburg - Globe and Mail
• Vancouver city profile - Jones Lang LaSalle

JUNE 2007

• Nova Scotia: A land rich in history, wildlife and beauty - Independent.ie
• Labour and material pushing up the price of newly built homes - The Star.com
• Housing market leveling off, says Scotia Economics - REM

MAY 2007

• Strong economy spurs renters to become homeowners: StatsCan - CBC
• Vancouver imposes restrictions on rental conversions - CBC News
• Out-of-province buyers spark condo conversions - The Star Pheonix
• Banks raise mortgage rates - Toronto Star
• House prices up 10% a year since 2001 - Globe and Mail
• Edmonton City pushes for housing plan - Edmonton Journal

APRIL 2007

• Property sales jump - Pakistan Herald
• Word-of-mouth greets lofty goals on 2nd Avenue - Star Pheonix

MARCH 2007

• Ontario Budge 2007: Adjustments aim to ease volatility of property taxes - Globe and Mail
• Renting pain with condo conversions - Edmonton Journal
• February Chill Cools Canadian Housing Starts - BMO Capital Markets
• Property taxes are unfair to renters - Hamilton Spectator

FEBRUARY 2007

• Affordable housing gap to worsenAffordable housing gap to worsen - Squamish Chief
• Home market still hot despite deep freeze - Winnipeg Sun

JANUARY 2007

• Lighten Property Taxes - Winnipeg Sun
• Canada is ripe for property investment - 999 Today
• Housing Starts in 2006 Reach Their Second Highest Level in Nearly Two Decades Despite Cooling in Dec - CMHC

DECEMBER 2006

• House price declines - The Calgary Sun
• No ’correction’ predicted as prices dip - Canada.com

NOVEMBER 2006

• Tofino: British Columbia’s property hotspot - Independent Online
• Global house price bust comes to Canada - In2perspective

SEPTEMBER 2006

• Capacity issues lead to housing slowdown - The Star Phoenix
• Property-tax system in dispute - all over town - all over town
• Ottawa housing market slowing down: economists - CBC

AUGUST 2006

• City’s housing market strong and diverse - Globe and Mail
• Bayview Village joining big time: quickly rising real estate prices - Town Crier

JULY 2006

• Bluffs area of Scarborough tops the city with 21% price rise, survey finds - Globe and Mail

JUNE 2006

• Prices are sky high in Canada’s surging market - Realty Times

APRIL 2006

• U.S. housing woes may bode ill for Canada - ReportonBusiness.com