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OTTAWA – The federal government finished the week by touting the popularity of a program designed to quickly build or buy affordable housing for the nation's most vulnerable – one piece of a larger home-price puzzle.The program first…

The Canadian Real Estate Association says annual home sales reached a new high in 2021, eclipsing the previous record set in 2020 by about 20 per cent.The association said Monday that about 667,000 residential properties changed hands…

OTTAWA – The federal government is giving co-operative housing providers millions in funding to ease rental costs, pledging relief for a sector that has sought to find new ways to provide help to tenants.The $118.2 million over…

VICTORIA – Homeowners in British Columbia whose property is valued at just under $2 million will still be eligible for the annual homeowner grant.The provincial government announced Wednesday it has raised the grant threshold to…

The Quebec Professional Association of Real Estate Brokers (QPAREB) has released its 2021 fourth quarter report on the residential real estate market for the Province of Quebec, based on the real estate brokers’ Centris provincial database.…

The Quebec Professional Association of Real Estate Brokers (QPAREB) has released its residential real estate market statistics for the Montreal Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) for the month of December, based on the real estate brokers’…

A record 121,712 sales were reported through the Toronto Regional Real Estate Board’s (TRREB) MLS® System in 2021 – up 7.7 per cent from the previous 2016 high of 113,040 and up 28 per cent compared to 2020. TRREB reports that record demand…

VANCOUVER – An annual surtax on houses valued over $1 million could help reduce housing inequality and cool housing markets, a report says.Paul Kershaw, founder of Generation Squeeze and author of the report published Wednesday with…

Fueled by the consumer response to the COVID‐19 pandemic along with historically low interest rates, total property sales in the Fraser Valley in 2021 shattered the previous annual record last set in 2016, according to the Fraser Valley…

VICTORIA – Assessed values of properties in British Columbia are up again, but the pricey Vancouver area has been upstaged by small towns where value estimates rose by more than 40 per cent.Data posted on the BC Assessment website…