Showing posts with label Vancouver housing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vancouver housing. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 2, 2007

ROYAL LEPAGE HOUSING REPORT

Another collection of housing market report by Vancouver
Home Mortgage:


Click on this link to read the full report by Royal Lepage
Real Estate Services.

Unlike the U.S. housing market, the housing sentiment in
Canada is strong and there are no signs of any slowing
down in the demand for housing and price gain across the
country.

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Vancouver housing bubble: Will it burst or just deflate?

A blog posting by Vancouver Home Mortgage :

With the Bank of Canada raising interest rates and Canadian Banks offering more attractive saving rates to consumers, investors will be tempted to move their real estate investments to safer savings account and GIC investments.

The Bank of Nova Scotia is advertising a 4.85%* on a 24-month GIC. The offer is only available until August 04. There are minimum deposit of $1,000 required and the GIC is non-redeemable.

ICICI Bank offers a more flexible deal, offering 4.5% on C$ deposits and 5.0% on US$ deposits on the bank’s HiSAVE Savings Account. There is no minimum deposit required and interest is calculated the daily balance and paid monthly!

The Canadian housing market is faced with:

* Rising Interest Rates
* Severe affordability problem
* Rising dollar impacting the manufacturing and resource sectors
* Softening in oil and gas prices
* Increasing new and resale home inventory
* Distinct possibility of US recession

These are negative forces that could topple the unrealistic real estate markets in Greater Vancouver, Fraser Valley of BC, Calgary and Edmonton.

What are your thoughts?