housing market

TORONTO — Ontario's financial services watchdog is proposing changes to guidance offered to mortgage agents and brokerages in an effort to deter deceptive and fraudulent mortgage activity.The Financial Services Regulatory Authority of…

VANCOUVER — Home construction in British Columbia will need to rise to unprecedented levels to offset the impact of record immigration on the housing market, the B.C. Real Estate Association said in a new report on Tuesday.The province…

Last month, Chelsea Hunt and her husband concluded that the cost of living had skyrocketed to a point where they could no longer afford to stay in their apartment and needed to move.``We were living paycheque to paycheque,'' the…

Title insurers need to be brought under anti-money laundering rules to fight against scam artists who impersonate homeowners to sell or mortgage their properties, a former insurance executive says.Tim Hyde, who spent years in the title…

TORONTO — Projections in Ontario's budget for housing starts show the province's target to build 1.5 million homes in 10 years slipping further out of reach with each passing year.Nearly 100,000 homes were built in the province in…

TORONTO — Canada's rental housing shortage will quadruple to 120,000 units by 2026 without a significant boost in stock, Royal Bank of Canada said in a report Wednesday.In order to reach the optimal vacancy rate of three per cent, the…

TORONTO — With two kids under the age of six living in a two-bedroom, one-bathroom household, Jacquelin Forsey and her husband have long known it would only be a matter of time before their family outgrew their beloved home.Long hours…

OTTAWA – Canada's annual inflation rate continued to slow last month, reaffirming the central bank's decision to hold its key interest rate steady.In its latest consumer price index report released Tuesday, Statistics Canada said…

The average asking rent for all property types in Canada rose 9.7 per cent year over year in February, to $1,984, according to the Rentals.ca  and Urbanation latest National Rent Report.This is the first time since June that average…