housing

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…

MAPLE RIDGE, B.C. – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau touted efforts by the Liberal government to help first-time homebuyers put more down on their mortgages during a visit to a region of the country today that is facing a housing squeeze.…

TORONTO – Criminals may be taking advantage of lax disclosure rules in the Greater Toronto Area to park billions of dollars in ill-gotten gains in the regional housing market according to a new report. The report out Thursday by…

Luxury home sales fell in the two formerly hot housing markets of Vancouver and Toronto, as well as Calgary, in the first couple months of the new year, according to data released Wednesday by Sotheby's International Realty Canada.That…

OTTAWA – Thank you, Mr. Speaker.Last week, I was back home in Toronto–where I had a chance to visit with some young people at the Boys and Girls Club in Regent Park.It was March Break last week, so they were pretty focused on having…

OTTAWA – On the eve of a federal election this fall, the Liberal government is looking to help more Canadians buy their first homes by picking up a portion of their mortgage costs and increasing the amount they can borrow from their…

OTTAWA –  Highlights from the federal Liberal budget tabled Tuesday by Finance Minister Bill Morneau:–  $1.7 billion over five years, and $586 million a year after that, for a Canada Training Benefit to help workers upgrade skills…

CALGARY – Four years after an oil price crash that's been blamed for more than 40,000 oilpatch job cuts in Western Canada, stability is returning to the residential rental market.Apartment owners including Boardwalk REIT and Mainstreet…