Trudeau takes first step to break Canada’s addiction to rising home prices
www.theglobeandmail.com
It is rare for senior Canadian politicians to admit that home prices will need to stall if we actually care about affordability

At last, someone from the world of politics is being honest about a pervasive and harmful trade-off. When home prices rise faster than earnings, owners like me gain wealth, while non-owners lose because their incomes fall further behind housing costs.

Honesty is saying that home prices have to fall. But this is progress.

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    • @[email protected]
      11•8 months ago

      Don’t bother debating with this likely troll. The article he cites literally references the rising interest rate as a significant cause for a slight dip in sales, with a reduced month-over-month percentage but still an increase over August 2022 sales. The article also cites continued attention by the government being predicted to cause sales to further cool.

    • @[email protected]
      -8•8 months ago

      The market crashed?

      Indeed. https://creastats.crea.ca/

      40-year-old two-bedroom condos are now $700k here.

      1. A market crash on the country scale doesn’t necessarily mean every little nook and cranny in the country has crashed. It is possible that your local market has not (yet) crashed. Calgary, for example, has not presented as having crashed yet, but it also never really got that heated.
      2. You have not indicated if this is list price or sale price. You asking a billion dollars for your crack shack that nobody would ever agree to doesn’t mean the market has gone up. Only the latter is significant.
      3. A crash is just the beginning. It took around three years for the 2006 US housing crash to find the bottom. It is not like suddenly overnight a million dollar home becomes a $300,000 home. The crash may see a million dollar home become a $300,000 home, but it will almost certainly take years to see that play out.
      • @[email protected]
        8•8 months ago

        Did you even read your own link? Besides sales dropping 4% (which it says was expected due to the rate hikes) every other stat they listed was up year-over-year or month-over-month.

        Price growth has remained solid in Quebec and the East Coast, followed by British Columbia and the Prairies. Ontario is now a mixed bag, still with some of the bigger increases but also some of the bigger declines.

        That sounds to me like the only area where prices aren’t still growing are parts of Ontario and maybe the territories.

        • @[email protected]
          -4•8 months ago

          I did. Did you? Again, it’s not like one day you have a million dollar home and the next day you have a $300,000 home. That is not how it works. There is all kinds of ups and downs that follow a crash. Compare what you are seeing now to the US housing market in 2006-2007. You are going to see a lot of similarities.

          • @[email protected]
            2•8 months ago

            I think you could argue that the market is slowing or declining, I disagree now but I could be swayed.

            Saying the market is crashing though is like saying you crashed your car when you hit a pothole. Sure, if you look at a big car crash in the past someone may have blown a tire in a pothole before causing a pileup, but millions of people hit potholes every day and most are nothing more than a momentary slowdown.

            I’m not saying a housing crash couldn’t be coming, but it’s unreasonable to infer that one is happening based on the data you showed.