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Inflated interest rates may have made real estate in already-overpriced Toronto completely unaffordable to all but the ultra-wealthy in recent months, but even if mortgage and tax bills on the average Toronto home now amount to upwards of $7,000 per month, prices have yet to drop to match the decline in market activity. Sales for both condos and homes in the GTA have been tanking, but even with...

Lack of inventory is the main underlying storyline in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) real estate market coming out of the winter months, and with an anticipated increase in demand, and competition among buyers, market watchers project renewed price growth. Part of the reason for growing demand, especially among first-time buyers, has been a red-hot rental market, as the average rents start to get closer...

The Bank of Canada today increased its target for the overnight rate to 3¼%, with the Bank Rate at 3½% and the deposit rate at 3¼%. The Bank is also continuing its policy of quantitative tightening. The global and Canadian economies are evolving broadly in line with the Bank’s July projection. The effects of COVID-19 outbreaks, ongoing supply disruptions, and the war in Ukraine continue to dampen...

The Bank of Canada today increased its target for the overnight rate to 1½%, with the Bank Rate at 1¾% and the deposit rate at 1½%. The Bank is also continuing its policy of quantitative tightening (QT). Inflation globally and in Canada continues to rise, largely driven by higher prices for energy and food. In Canada, CPI inflation reached 6.8% for the month of April – well above the Bank’s...

The Bank of Canada has announced a 0.5% increase to its benchmark interest rate, a move that signals the central bank’s largest single rate hike for over two decades. The decision, revealed at the Bank’s third scheduled interest rate announcement of the year, marks the second consecutive hike to its trendsetting rate after March’s quarter-point increase, and means the policy rate now sits at...