As Canada’s housing market continues to recalibrate after two years of shifting conditions, smaller urban centres are increasingly standing out for their resilience. While the country’s largest metropolitan areas have seen price growth flatten or dip in response to higher borrowing costs, a number of secondary markets are quietly seeing year-over-year gains.

Some of these smaller markets also offer...

Occam’s Razor is the philosophical principle that suggests, when you are faced with multiple hypotheses or suppositions for the same phenomenon, the simplest explanation is likely the best.

Sometimes, we make problems more difficult by implementing complicated solutions. The housing supply crisis is an example. 

If we learned anything from a housing summit hosted recently by RESCON, it was that...

The Hamilton-Burlington residential market showed signs of renewed movement again in September after a slower start to the year. It was the third straight month of stronger sales activity. Although activity remains below historical norms, the region appears to be shifting toward greater balance, with expanding supply giving buyers more choice and sellers facing stiffer competition.

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