Alberta’s oil and gas industry has had a very, very rough year. With a major pipeline infrastructure deficit and major delays and setbacks for all new pipeline projects, with no end in sight in the near future, Canada’s once-prosperous oil sands are hurting. Canada has the reserves and they have the demand–they just have no way to get their oil to market, with their limited amount of pipelines already running at full capacity and storage tanks filled to bursting.

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The BC Real Estate Association is reporting that Victoria is the third most expensive real estate market in BC.

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When Juliane Lorenz and her husband started renting a bungalow in Etobicoke, just west of Toronto, after their first child was born, she did not think much of it. Renting is the norm in her native Germany, where the homeownership rate is less than 50 per cent.

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Delinquency rates in Canada continued to march higher in the first three months of 2019 as consumers piled on more debt, according to a new report from Equifax Canada.  

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If the world were to have another Great Plague of the kind that swept Europe in the 1300s, odds are your wages would rise sharply.

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Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. says the pace of housing starts slowed in May.

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Insurance providers are warning anyone operating a short-term rental or thinking of getting in the business, to check their coverage.

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There appears to be a common ‘train of thought’ among Canadian home buyers, says a report from Mustel Group and Sotheby’s International Realty Canada.

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