Has ’fixing’ Canada’s mortgage market made it riskier?Tighter lending rules will send borrowers into the arms of ’alternative lenders,’ posing a whole new set of hazards
The ballyhooed ’war on homebuyers’ isn’t realRegulators have finally realized that Canada is addicted to debt, and are trying to limit the fallout. This is not a bad thing.
Housing bubbles worldwide will test a big lesson from the financial crisisCan you slow housing prices without raising interest rates?
Canada’s housing market: is it a cooling? Is it a crash?Here’s a guide to bullish and bearish arguments
Canadian housing: There’s an obvious oversupply problem in Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal All three cities face slowing sales and growing inventories
The under-the-radar changes that may soon deflate (or pop) the housing bubbleCould this be the Harper Conservatives’ real plan for the housing market?