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Housing Market
The real estate industry is lowering expectations as dreams of a recovery fade fast. This month, both the Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) and the CMHC revised their 2026 forecasts for existing-home sales and pric...
New Development
Vancouver's push for a Major League Baseball franchise has a name attached to it. The City of Vancouver has confirmed that The Show Vancouver Bid Corporation (TSV) will work with the City to explore a potential MLB expan...
Mortgage Rates
Federal Reserve officials left interest rates unchanged, but a fractured vote signalled growing conviction among some policymakers that higher rates are needed to curb resurgent inflation.
Mortgage Rates
The U.S. dollar will weaken if the Federal Reserve leaves interest rates unchanged this week, according to TD Securities.
Renting
About six months after publishing their 2026 Housing Market Outlook, the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) says that what was already a weak housing market has actually proven even weaker than expected.“Hous...
Government & Policy
Vancouver City Council voted Monday to approve Holborn Group's rezoning application for the Hudson's Bay parkade block redevelopment — clearing the way for what would be Western Canada's tallest tower.Holborn called it "...
Government & Policy
Vancouver City Council has approved one of the most ambitious private sector-led building projects in the city’s history, allowing local developer Holborn Group’s landmark multi-tower redevelopment of the Hudson’s Bay pa...
Housing Market
Federal Reserve officials will head into their policy meeting this week confronting a resurgence in price pressures that could make their decision on whether to hold or hike interest rates a close call — and a contentiou...
New Development
Despite over 320 people registered to speak on Holborn Group’s proposal to redevelop the Hudson’s Bay parkade city block in the core of Downtown Vancouver — with three mixed-use towers, including what would become Wester...
Housing Market
If Canadian real estate is in a correction, it forgot to tell buyers in most provinces. CREA data shows the price of a typical home fell nationally in June, even as most of its 9 provincial benchmarks climbed to new high...
Mortgage Rates
Robert McLister: New round of fighting has oil prices and bond yields climbing again. Plus: Why the CMHC doesn't plan to raise default insurance fees anytime soon
Advocacy Update
The TRREB North Government Relations Committee (GRC) Working Group has been discussing a range of planning and housing policy issues impacting York Region and Simcoe County. Key topics include provincial Official Plan re...
New Development
When Vancouver City Council approved the rezoning application for 1166 West Pender St. in July 2019, the redevelopment of the site was envisioned as a 364-ft-tall, 32-storey office tower with 355,000 sq. ft. of premium C...
Housing Market
CMHC now expects home sales, prices and housing starts to fall in 2026 as economic uncertainty, high borrowing costs and slower population growth keep buyers sidelined.
Government & Policy
Vancouver City Council has unanimously approved the first key steps for major land use change that could eventually allow the former Molson Coors brewery site at the south end of the Burrard Street Bridge to be transform...
New Development
The market downturn is forcing developers big and small to adapt and revise their projects, and the latest example is Vancouver-based OpenForm Properties and their project set for the Edmonds neighbourhood of Burnaby.Ope...
Housing Market
Low-rise new home sales in the Greater Toronto Area outperformed their historic average for a third consecutive month in June, even as benchmark prices kept sliding, according to the latest figures from the Building Indu...
Renting
Canada's multifamily market caught its breath in the second quarter of 2026. After nearly two years of climbing vacancies and cooling rents, the latest data from Yardi shows a sector settling into something closer to equ...
Renting
Landlords in the UK have been feeling the squeeze for a decade. For many, new legislation designed to strengthen the rights of tenants is the final straw.
Government & Policy
Canada’s building boom is slowing, but still very much alive–even without population growth. Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) data shows housing starts slipped in June. BMO Capital Markets wrote to investor...
Government & Policy
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. says the annual pace of housing starts in June fell six per cent compared with May.
New Development
There's a version of new home construction that most buyers know well: a patchwork of builders, a streetscape that never quite coheres, a construction zone that lingers years after move-in. Mattamy Homes has spent decade...
Garry Marr
The policy argument for buying these units is that they are cheaper than building low-income housing
New Development
New development proposals continue to pop up along the Fraser Highway corridor, as the Surrey-Langley SkyTrain currently under construction is expected to bring forth waves of new development.On Monday, Surrey City Counc...
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