Real Estate

Canada sets interest rates Wednesday, and there’s widespread concern about what any further borrowing-cost increases might mean for consumers, their immense pile of debt and the housing market. It’s one of the reasons to be bearish on Canada. Steve Eisman, who was featured in Michael Lewis’s book “The Big Short,” told Bloomberg TV this month investors should short Canadian financials, citing...

Sales in the Toronto housing market have so far decreased in 2018, but some market watchers are optimistic that a spring recovery will take place. The most recent figures from the Toronto Real Estate Board look grim compared to the euphoria that pulled through the market in early 2017, says Cameron Forbes, general manager of ReMax Realtron Realty Inc. "We had an artificial market from January to January,...

Liberty Development has cancelled three towers in Vaughan but a deposit refund won’t be enough to secure new homes for some buyers. The latest Toronto-area condo cancellation — Liberty Development’s Cosmos condos at Vaughan Metropolitan Centre — is raising questions about consumer protection for buyers who hand over large deposits on a pre-construction home only to learn months or years later that...

Major lenders hike rates following BoC decision Canada’s major banks have been quick to react to the Bank of Canada’s decision to raise interest rates to 1.25%. CIBC, RBC, Scotiabank and TD were among the first lenders to increase their prime lending rates by 25 basis points to 3.45%; the new rates take effect from today (Jan 18). The BoC rate hike was widely expected but what happens next is...