TREB will provide public access to GTA home sales data starting Tuesday The Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB) is solving several issues with releasing Greater Toronto Area sales data, but promises to provide a password-protected feed available to realtors by Tuesday. According to TREB, the feed...

Debt-to-income ratio reached 169.1% in the second quarter According to Statistics Canada, the sum owed by households relative to their income, went up slightly in the second quarter, even despite slower mortgage borrowing. The debt-to-income ratio rose to 169.1%, as the growth in debt exceeded income. It...

CIBC says Canada needs to pay attention to risks from global interest rates Canada’s government should keep a close eye on low interest rates at the global market and all the possible risks to the national economy and financial system. “Interest rates have been extremely...

Canada will not agree to a bad deal in NAFTA negotiations The U.S. and Canada kept working on finding a compromise as the countries resumed the North American Free Trade Agreement negotiation, and Ottawa says it will not agree to a bad deal. “It’s been a...

August home prices growth may be a sign of future hikes Last month, real estate markets across Canada reported annual home prices growth, and many believe it’s the end of the cooling period, earlier caused by the new mortgage rules. However, will this tendency go...