by Jordana Springgay | Feb 3, 2025 | News
“The bottom line here is that there is a big disconnect materializing between conditions in Ontario and most of the rest of the country,” says BMO Director and Senior Economist Robert Kavcic. At the end of 2024, Canada’s housing market showed stark...
by REM Editorial Team | Jan 27, 2025 | Boards & Associations, News
Calgary’s housing market will likely maintain its momentum through 2025, with sales expected 20 per ent above long-term trends, according to the Calgary Real Estate Board’s (CREB) annual forecast. While population growth and easing lending rates are expected to fuel...
by Jordana Springgay | Jan 23, 2025 | Boards & Associations, News
Metro Vancouver’s residential market in 2024 proved to be a mixed bag, falling short of optimistic forecasts set earlier in the year by Greater Vancouver Realtors (GVR). While some gains were seen, they didn’t reach expectations, leaving some market watchers...
by Daniel Foch | Jan 10, 2025 | Boards & Associations, Columnists
As we reflect on 2024’s market, I can’t help but draw parallels to another pivotal moment in Toronto’s real estate history: the dramatic correction of the early 1990s. Back then, Toronto experienced what many considered unthinkable: a six-year...
by Trevor Hargreaves | Jan 8, 2025 | Columnists
In British Columbia, we wrapped up October with one of the oddest provincial elections in recent memory, only to immediately turn our gaze cross-border to an even stranger spectacle. Here in the land of socialized medicine and progressive poutineries, the rhetoric of...