“My daughter and her husband, both in high paying professional jobs with a baby on the way are being lured with the siren of home ownership in the Vancouver area,” Jessica writes me. “I know, I know.

A common saying in finance is that “markets take the stairs up and the elevator down”, meaning that advances are typically ...

The main reason is the lack of technology in the TSX (6% weight in the TSX versus the S&P 500 at 31%) and its large commodity ...

That’s the other shoe dropping. Yesterday the first hit the floor as Ottawa desperately unveiled 30-year mortgages and a ...

Numbers released this week by CREA confirm what we can all see. House sales are languishing and buyers are balking, despite ...

In Waterloo Region the price of a detached home has shed $300,000 since the peak during the winter of 2022. The selling price ...

Affordability is terrible. The cost of properties has not dropped meaningfully, and a large swath of buyers has been removed from the game. Many of them, permanently. Sales volumes will increase as ...

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Today the Fed cuts itas rate for the first time in four years. Big deal. It’s the CB that runs the planet. This means the Wicked Witch of Tightening is kaput. For the next year (at least) the price of ...

According to the American Economic Association, 60% of us pick option 1), indicating that most of us prefer instant gratification. It’s human nature, it seems, to prefer happiness today versus ...

The median sold price for a house in upper NY state is $310,000 (Cad $417,000) A few hundred feet across the Niagara River, in Ontario, recent sales average $1,050,000. The same story in Detroit ...