The past 24 hours have brought a pair of significant developments in our province – both of which will change how millions of Ontarians interact with our housing market. The roller coaster ride that’s characterized the past two years has been slowing for a few months now, with rising interest rates and general uncertainty working to put the brakes on the unprecedented price hikes of late 2020...
The past several weeks haven’t exactly been jam packed with good news on the economic front. Canadian consumers are aware by now of the pain that’s being inflicted both by the widespread economic malady of the day (inflation), as well as its hardly-more-attractive remedy (interest rate hikes). While the Bank of Canada’s efforts to curb runaway price increases since the beginning of 2022 have met...
How Does a Recession Impact the Housing Market? There’s been a fair amount of contradictory analysis floating around out there this summer concerning whether Canada will follow our American cousins into an economic recession this year. A quick Google search will show you exactly what I mean, with headlines like “Canada’s economy is headed for a recession” and “Here’s why experts say...
