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Housing market expected to moderate this year and next: CMHC

 

Financial Post- Canada’s housing market is expected to ease in 2010 and 2011 as the market returns to more balanced conditions, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation said Wednesday.

"Canadian housing markets have recovered from the low levels posted in early 2009," Bob Dugan, chief economist for CMHC, said in a release.

"Moving forward, housing starts will moderate as activity becomes more in-line with long term demographic fundamentals. New measures for government-backed mortgage insurance introduced by the government of Canada that took effect on April 19, 2010 will continue to support the long-term stability of Canada’s housing market…”

Housing market expected to moderate this year and next: CMHC

No Canadian housing bubble: Bank of Canada deputy governor

Vancouver Sun- The Canadian housing market is strong, but it is not experiencing a bubble, Paul Jenkins, senior deputy governor of the Bank of Canada, said Monday.

The federal government said last week it will bring in new mortgage rules to cool the housing sector and prevent home buyers, tempted by record low interest rates, from overextending themselves.

At the same time, it said there was no housing bubble, a point echoed on Monday by Jenkins, who was speaking at a panel discussion at the Government of Canada and Financial Times Global Business Leaders Day in Vancouver, where the housing market is especially hot…

No Canadian housing bubble: Bank of Canada deputy governor