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The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver says home sales returned to around historically typical levels in November after a quieter first half of the year.The board says 2,498 homes sold in the month for a 55.3 per cent increase…

VANCOUVER — The City of Vancouver will be raising its empty homes tax by 25 per cent for each of the next three years in an effort to tackle a crisis in the lack of long-term rental housing.Mayor Kennedy Stewart says he has directed…

With a national struggle to balance supply and demand in real estate, the Vancouver market area saw extremely slow starts to the year, according to the recently released Altus Group 2019 Vancouver Flash Report. While there was strength in…

The Daniels Corporation is providing 10 homes to Habitat for Humanity in Toronto’s Regent Park, Mississauga’s City Centre and Erin Mills locations, Pickering and Brampton, to create immediate affordable housing opportunities.All 10…

The pace of Canadian housing starts slowed in September compared with August, but still came in better than expected.Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. said Tuesday the seasonally adjusted annual rate fell 2.5 per cent month-over-month…

The trend in housing starts was 218,998 units in August 2019, compared to 208,931 units in July 2019, according to Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC). This trend measure is a six-month moving average of the monthly seasonally…

The Toronto Real Estate Board says home sales in the Greater Toronto Area in August were up 13.4 per cent compared with a year ago.The board say there were 7,711 home sales through its MLS system in August, up from 6,797 sales…

The August National Rent Report, produced by Rentals.ca and Bullpen Research & Consulting, shows affordability for low-income Canadians looking for a place to rent is worse than reported in mid-July by the Canadian Centre For Policy…

Canadian home sale rose in July in broad gains as markets start to recover from the stress test tightening last year, though economists say global concerns raise some uncertainties for the future.The Canadian Real Estate Association…