I can’t imagine that it would come as much of a surprise to anyone that the cost of home ownership in Saskatoon has skyrocketed in recent years. According to the recently released “6th Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey” owning a Saskatoon home priced at the median in Q3/2009 would have cost about 4.4 times [...]
TD Bank Financial Group released a “Resale Housing Outlook” yesterday that provides some insights into the potential consequences of the quick recovery that the Canadian housing market experienced over the past year. It’s a pretty interesting, “where we’ve been, where we may be headed” report. Some of the ideas that caught my attention from the [...]
From RBC’s November 2009 Housing Trends and Affordability Study
The string of significant improvements in housing affordability in Canada finally came to an end in the third quarter. RBC’s affordability measures rose at the national level for the first time in six quarters for all housing types.
All provinces and major metro markets shared in the deterioration [...]
RBC Economics just released their fall Housing Trends and Affordability study that shows house prices having returned to “pre-boom” levels nationally with Saskatchewan showing considerable affordability improvements, but remaining above long-term historical averages. At the same time, the graph on page eight of the report suggests that affordability improvements may level off as Saskatoon seems [...]
RBC Economics has just released their latest Housing Trends and Affordability report for the Canadian real estate market. Here are some excerpts that touch on affordability changes nationally, and in Saskatchewan.
Improved affordability lifts Canada’s housing markets
Housing affordability greatly improved in the first quarter of this year; RBC’s affordability measures for all housing types recorded some [...]
According to the Saskatoon Star Phoenix, “Saskatoon city council’s executive committee approved a new mortgage support program on Tuesday to help low- and moderate-income people get into the housing market.
“Under the program, which will replace the home start affordable housing initiative, people with a household income of $52,000 or less will be given a five [...]
Here are a few of the highlights from RBC’s recent Housing Trends and Affordability study released yesterday.
As we head into the all-important spring season, the ongoing cyclical correction will put the entire housing sector to the test. However, while the pain will likely persist for many homeowners and industry participants, there are encouraging signs on [...]
A story titled, “Canada’s dirty subprime secret,” appears in today’s Globe and Mail and claims that Canadian leaders are simply wrong about the extent to which the subprime mortgage mess will affect Canadians. According to the Globe’s report, it’s a bigger problem than we might have expected and its effects are already being felt in [...]
Some call it a report on the obvious, while others see it as big news.
No matter how you view the Frontier Centre for Public Policy’s International Housing Affordability Survey, you’d be hard pressed to make a convincing argument that housing affordability hasn’t suffered a serious blow in Saskatoon over the past couple of years. In [...]
SASKATCHEWAN, October 6, 2008 – The red-hot house prices and wild activity of Saskatchewan’s recently explosive real estate market have both tempered during the third quarter. The combination of rising inventory levels and a decrease in buyer demand in both Saskatoon and Regina have positioned the real estate markets in both cities in the buyers’ [...]
In a report titled, “Peaked: Canada’s housing market in depth,” economist David Wolf of investment-banker Merrill Lynch says that “Canada’s housing market is entering a sustained downturn amid excess supply and as higher prices deter new buyers.”
According to a story in today’s Globe and Mail, Mr. Wolf is most concerned about Saskatchewan, where the [...]
