No U.S.-style housing crash for Canada: report

While many concerns stem from the Canadian housing market, it will not see an American-style crash, a new Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce report says.

House prices will likely fall north of the border in the next year or two, but a number of factors are likely to mitigate the impact on borrowers and the broader economy here, it suggests. It forecasts that the Canadian market will likely go through a soft landing, which is exactly what policy makers in Ottawa are hoping.

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