housing

Statistics released today by the Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) show national home sales edged higher in March 2019 after having declined sharply the previous month.Highlights:National home sales edged up 0.9%…

The City of Toronto is poised to restrict concrete work for the construction of high-rise buildings through amendments to the noise bylaw in a move that will threaten more than 7,000 jobs and cripple the industry's ability to deliver much…

The trend in housing starts was 202,279 units in March 2019, compared to 202,039 units in February 2019, according to Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC). This trend measure is a six-month moving average of the monthly seasonally…

TORONTO – The federal government will put $1.3 billion towards renovating and upgrading affordable housing units in Toronto, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Friday.Trudeau said the money – which will come over the course of…

OTTAWA – Canada's housing agency says new spending measures aimed at helping first-time buyers afford homes won't push prices up more than a few tenths of a percentage point.A report Thursday from the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp.…

OTTAWA – The chief executive of the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. says his agency wants to raise hundreds of millions more dollars to help Canadians afford places to live, adding to the billions already available in government funding.…

Toronto Real Estate Board President Garry Bhaura announced that Greater Toronto Area REALTORS® reported 7,187 residential sales through TREB’s MLS® System in March 2019. This result was inline with 7,188 sales reported in March 2018.…

The Building Industry and Land Development Association (BILD) has launched its Building Answers campaign to answer the top questions that GTA residents have about housing and development in a public, open and factual manner. The campaign…

VICTORIA – The British Columbia government is examining two reports on money laundering that it hopes will help stop the flow of dirty money through real estate, luxury cars and horse racing.The province commissioned two reviews in…

TORONTO – After first disrupting the hotel business industry, shared rental services like Airbnb are making life difficult for Canada's corporate housing sector.Condominium buildings across the country are increasingly shutting their…