Builders in Canada got started on roughly the same number of new homes in the first half of 2025 compared to a year prior, according to a new report, and it’s not enough to put a dent in the country’s lack of affordable housing.
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Steven Cohen steers his vehicle to the back of a 20-acre industrial lot on the outskirts of Niagara Falls, Ont., moving around stacks and stacks of metal beams and piles of coiled and long rebar. These are the steel building blocks of Canada’s next condo towers, bridges and other major infrastructure projects, but that’s not why they can’t stay here.
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Challenging is a delicate way to describe the real estate investment trust market over the last five years.
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Lord Conrad Black has said that Alberta may hold the ultimate power in deciding Canada’s future, predicting that Prime Minister Mark Carney’s climate policies could push the province toward independence with consequences more severe than Quebec’s independence movement.
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Central Okanagan’s average asking rent went up and down in August.
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The housing rental market continues to be dire in Guelph, according to a new report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
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Canada’s unemployment rate jumped to 7.1 per cent in August, the highest jobless rate in over nine years outside of the pandemic, raising bets that the Bank of Canada would cut its interest rate this month.
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Waterloo Region is one of the most expensive places to be a renter in Canada according to a recent study from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA).
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Canada’s new homes market is booming with near record housing starts — with one exception, Ontario. RBC Economics recently published a study on new home starts in Canada, leveraging new data from Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. from late August.
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TORONTO — Home prices in the Greater Toronto Area remained under pressure in August as new listings outpaced sales.
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