by Daniel Steinfeld | Sep 29, 2026 | Guest Columns
The 2026 municipal election is a pivotal moment for housing policy. On Oct. 26, voters across Ontario will elect mayors and councillors who have significant influence over how much housing gets built, where it gets built, how quickly projects move forward and...
by Trevor Koot | Sep 2, 2026 | Columnists
The views expressed in this column are solely those of the author. BCREA leaders regularly share their insights in an exclusive column for Real Estate Magazine. Interested in contributing? Send us an email. For generations, there was a broadly understood...
by Courtney Zwicker | Jun 2, 2026 | News
Canada’s housing shortage could look very different today if builders had been able to respond to rising demand as quickly as their American counterparts, new research from the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) suggests. The federal housing agency...
by Susan Doran | May 29, 2026 | News
Canada and New Zealand are almost as far apart on the planet as it’s possible to get. Yet we share remarkably similar housing markets. Although you wouldn’t know it now, not long ago New Zealand was a country with a soft-touch real estate sector. The...
by Richard Lyall | May 21, 2026 | Columnists
Despite the urgent need to dramatically accelerate homebuilding, a new report done for RESCON shows that housing starts have declined sharply and industry job losses are mounting. The data is sobering. Condo apartment starts in 2025 have plunged 52 per cent compared...
