How The Housing Market Increase In Canada's Housing Market?

This paper will argue how Canada's housing market is at an all time high, we are known in Vancouver for having the most expensive housing market. This expensive market is not just a Vancouver problem, it is an issue growing through out the nation and is depriving the average citizen to be able to purchase a house in there life time. There is a major issue with the state of our market and how it effects out current citizens. Issues have been arising where the average wage in Vancouver is estimated at seventy seven thousand per family house hold, yet the average costing home as reached between five hundred thousand in the

Canada 's housing market is at an all-time high, they are known in Vancouver for having the most expensive housing market. This expensive market is not just a Vancouver problem, it is an issue growing throughout the nation and is depriving the average citizen to be able to purchase a house in their lifetime. There is a major issue with the state of the market and how it affects the current citizens. Issues have been rising where the average wage in Vancouver is estimated at seventy-one thousand per family household, according to the Vancouver Sun (2014), yet the average costing home as reached between five hundred thousand in the municipality to over one million within Vancouver, according to articles by Beth Lindsay (2015) of the Vancouver Sun, and Troy Landereville (2015) of The Maple Ridge Times.

Two economic factors affect supply in a stable housing market, price of related goods or similar houses, and the price of the good, best represented by style or size in the case of the housing market. The affluence of a community typically determines how much homes sell for in those communities, and therefore communities where a lot of people want to live become areas where average home prices are high. (Kumar, 1) There is little space in these affluent communities, and therefore little supply. A good example is New York City, where no homes are available, only apartment buildings, and very few apartments are actively exchanged each year.

Many people grow up in families where they are told that homeownership is an important asset one should strive for. For the past year my sister and her husband have been trying to purchase their own home in the GTA, but it came to no surprise they struggled to find an affordable home. “Prices have ticked up every year since 1998 (with one exception: in the 2008 recession, they dropped briefly and only barely)” (National Post). Throughout the last couple years housing prices in Canada continue to rise, with the highest house prices found on the west coast in Vancouver, British Columbia. This report will mainly focus on the booming real estate markets in Vancouver and Toronto, exploring the existing problems and solutions.In 2015 and 2016, house

For the past, 24years Canada averages 250,000 per year immigrants. This eventually leaves a drastic effect towards the Canadian people. As people all around the globe look towards Canada for social assistances and better job opportunities. However, this kind of attitude is not good for the Canadian people. As in Canada minimum of 1.5 million Canadian are looking for work with little job opportunities available at their disposal. So now due to growing number of immigrants in Canada, therefore Canadian are been forced to compete with the immigrants through Canada’s so-called “Employment Equity for Visible Minorities” programme. Secondly due to the invasion of immigrants in Canada it has caused an increase in house prices as well as demand for

A majority of Canadians understand that prices have increased in many cities since the topic has been dominating media headlines. However, most do not exactly know the extent of how high and fast prices have climbed. From March 2016 to September 2017 the average price for a single-detached and semi-detached dwelling increased tremendously across the country. Victoria, BC surprisingly saw a 106% increase from $599,026 to $1,233,841. Within the same time of 18 months, Sudbury saw a 57% increase from $391,528 to $613,511. In addition, Vancouver increased by 49% and topped at $3,085,422 making them the most expensive place to live in the country. Kelowna, increased by 39%, Windsor 11%, and Toronto slightly at 5%. Toronto's housing market actually slowed down for this 18-month time frame, however, from earlier exponential increases the average price peaked at a record $1,851,256 (CMHC, 2017, p.150). Although much smaller increases, this is still considered extreme for how high the prices already were and since this occurred in only 18 months. Between 1994 the average cost of a house in Vancouver was $305,519 and by 2004 was $365,111. That is only a 19.5% increase but over a ten

A few years ago, Vancouver’s first social housing project, Little Mountain, was bulldozed for a social mixing neighbourhood, in which geared towards those with higher incomes than the site’s original residents. This event was foreshadowed by the dramatic changes that happened early on in the 80s when the city began transforming itself into a global city by taking in wealthy Asian immigrants and their capital, in which were dedicated to Vancouver’s real estate market. Like many cities across North America, Vancouver saw a reconfiguration of its downtown and urban spaces. As a result, Little Mountain being bulldozed for redevelopment was an example of housing being used as commodities that started in the late twentieth century. The shift from social liberalism to neoliberalism in the 80s meant housing shifted from

“Why didn’t Canada’s housing market go bust?” This is a question that has attracted interest from economists, market researchers, and the general public as a whole. The Canadian and U.S housing markets are moderately comparable in numerous respects, but when it comes to the financial crisis both countries resulted in extremely diverse ways. There are many things that can be attributed to the different outcomes of both countries, including: lending standards, rise of real estate, and above all the crash of the sub-prime mortgages which will all be examined. What will first be analyzed are the history of the housing market in both Canada and the U.S prior to 2008 and the market crash, then the comparison of the factors that caused each scenario in both Canada and the United States, as well as the present situation in both Canada and the U.S.

The Community Planner presented an overview of Saanich’s work on the subject of affordable housing and highlighting important points. The “Affordable housing is defined by the CMHC (CANADA MORTGAGE AND HOUSING CORPORATION) as housing that costs less than 30% of gross household income.” Affordable housing supply for low to moderate-income households and is impacted by numerous factors such as Market forces, High land costs, rising construction costs, years of lack of federal and provincial investment in housing, stagnant growth of incomes at lower levels. Victoria has become the least affordable smaller housing market in Canada, and currently in Saanich, the median house price is $598,300, with the median Saanich income as $66,200. According to data presented by community Planner, “twenty-eight percent of households pay more than 30% of their household income on housing.”

Canada 's housing market is at an all-time high, they are known in Vancouver for having the most expensive housing market. This expensive market is not just a Vancouver problem, it is an issue growing throughout the nation and is depriving the average citizen to be able to purchase a house in their lifetime. There is a major issue with the state of the market and how it affects the current citizens. Issues have been rising where the average wage in Vancouver is estimated at seventy-one thousand per family household, according to the Vancouver Sun (2014), yet the average costing home as reached between five hundred thousand in the municipality to over one million within Vancouver, according to articles by Beth Lindsay (2015) of the Vancouver Sun, and Troy Landereville (2015) of The Maple Ridge Times.

Toronto and Vancouver are known as one of the most multicultural cities in the world, so when immigrants are deciding cities to move to they would rather choose Toronto or Vancouver where they can find their culture, religion, and food easily rather than going to other cities. When an extensive amount of immigrants immigrate it also creates a supply and demand issue. Toronto and Vancouver compose 10% of Canada's population, with such a large population the cities don’t have enough living accommodation for the demand which forces real estate prices to increase. Another element of geography includes economical investment, Vancouver is flooded with foreign investors, especially rich Chinese businessman who are investing their fortunes in the Vancouver real estate market. It has been reported Chinese investors spent about $12.7 billion on real estate in Vancouver and own about 33% of houses in Vancouver. As the purpose of the purchase is investments the investors are not selling the houses they bought or selling them for well over what they paid for, which is reducing the number of houses on sale in the Vancouver real estate market and in turn increasing prices. This is how the metro article "Real estate window: When it's too expensive to live in Vancouver, or Toronto" shopping relates to

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“I think high housing prices is a new reality but I don’t think we just have to live with it. Steps can be taken by all levels of government and the private sector that this new reality is creating,” says James McKellar. Now that Canadians are speaking out about their concerns for the market and their stability, and professionals in the industry are beginning to become concerned, it is now the governments turn to speak and try to fix the problem or help ease the minds of canadians. According to the Aurora Banner, higher levels of governments are making moves to address the issue, including the federal government’s announcements to move and to tighten mortgage rules and closing a tax loophole for foreign investors. This means that essentially the government will be making it harder for people to qualify for a mortgage and for foreign investors when trying to purchase real estate. According to the Toronto Star, “As of Friday ,October 28, 2016, Minister Bill Morneau says that the government continues to be ‘vigilant in the monitoring the market’, so ‘we have no further actions under consideration in terms of housing’.” Their most recent change was to end tax breaks for non residents and make it harder to qualify for mortgages. This means, if you cannot qualify for a mortgage, you cannot purchase real estate in Canada.

The research question of this Economics Extended Essay is, “To what extent does the Singapore Government’s policies on housing and immigration, help to increase the demand of the private property sector in the housing market.” For this investigation I used a variety of gathered raw data and policies from the Singapore government websites, on top of that I kept a collection of newspaper progressively monitoring the local property market. The

After researching the foreign markets, our department proposes that Canada would be our direction to go with to expand our business. The selection that we made is due to many factors. One of the factors involved is that Canada’s housing starts for 2012 is down by only percentage points. (Centre for the Study of Living Standards, 2012) This allows us to believe that the economy is still strong in the Canadian foreign market. There is new construction going on in Canada and there is potential for the market to go back up.