I hear a lot of people saying the market is going to continue to go down, and I hear a lot of people saying they don’t have a crystal ball and cannot predict what is going to happen. What I can tell you from my over 25 years in the ...

I was sitting at a table today and we started talking about the inflation rate. Both of my tablemates felt interest rates were going to head up to 20% again as they did in the 80s. I want to give you my professional opinion on this interesting outlook and why I ...

The more “The Sky is Falling” headlines there are in the news the better the readership. The challenge for readers is that often there is no factual data or analytical perspective in these articles. Here is a recent article in Better Dwelling about how drastically home prices are dropping.

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Frustration and disappointment are often words that come to me when I hear the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI) making recommendations to the Federal Government about tightening the Canadian lending guidelines. The recommendation will be presented on May 24, 2021, to be put in place ...

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"Ten years ago, The Economist magazine concluded Canadian real estate was grossly overvalued. Nine years ago, Merrill Lynch declared Canadian housing was afflicted by “overvaluation, speculation and oversupply.”

Seven years ago, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development and the International Monetary Fund began sounding sirens ...