Canadian housing market is regaining its balance

The Gazette- After a little bubble of fear-mongering in the media this year, you don’t hear so much these days about the horrors allegedly in store for Canada from the bursting of a housing bubble.

That’s probably because the evidence is piling up that there was no such bubble and, maybe not surprisingly, the nonexistent bubble isn’t bursting.

The latest reassuring report comes from the Teranet- National Bank house price index for August, which shows that the formerly rapid rise in prices has slowed to a crawl, but offers no sign of a collapse…

Canadian housing market is regaining its balance

Don’t clamp down on home mortgage regulations, federal government urged

Vancouver Sun- …the pent-up demand for housing from the buyers who fled the market during 2008′s sales collapse, combined with buyers jumping into the market sooner than expected to take advantage of record low mortgage rates, that have driven the buying binge and driven prices up over the last half of 2009…

Don’t clamp down on home mortgage regulations, federal government urged

Why Canada’s housing sector didn’t collapse

The Globe and Mail- While it’s tempting to think of a “housing correction” as a continent-wide phenomenon, National Bank Financial says the Canadian and U.S. markets couldn’t be more different…

Why Canada’s housing sector didn’t collapse – The Globe and Mail

World changed with collapse of banking colossus Lehman

 Canada.com – With the US being Canada’s largest trading partner, Tal adds, we will feel a “second-hand smoke” effect from this, much the way we did with the recession in …

World changed with collapse of banking colossus Lehman

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