Sentences with phrase «of soaring housing prices»

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One of the most visible results of this shift has been soaring housing prices.

Horgan was in Burnaby on Wednesday where a campaign stop focused on the soaring price of housing in Metro Vancouver.

As the debate has taken on a decidedly Asia focus, with some recent studies and popular media coverage pointing to investors from Asia as one of the drivers of Vancouver's soaring housing prices, the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada (APF Canada) has written a background document aggregating the available facts, outlining similar challenges in other jurisdictions, and raising the question: Is public policy required?

Housing affordability generally remained stable across Canada in the fourth quarter of 2015, with the exception of the scorching Vancouver and Toronto markets where soaring home prices continued to raise the bar on homeownership...

2016.02.29 Home ownership in Canada remains affordable... for buyers outside Vancouver or Toronto: RBC Economics Q4 2015 Housing affordability generally remained stable across Canada in the fourth quarter of 2015, with the exception of the scorching Vancouver and Toronto markets where soaring home prices continued to raise the bar on homeownership...

Nonetheless, Canadians trying to imagine how a broad economic downturn could play out should pay attention to what's happening on the Prairies, where high house prices, soaring personal debt levels and an unexpected wave of job losses proved to be a toxic mix.

In the last few years we've had a housing bubble, a credit bubble, runaway government spending, soaring gas prices, a global recession, high unemployment, the risk of a U.S. debt default, a fiscal crisis in Europe, and the threat of severe inflation.

With house prices soaring in these regions — but stagnating elsewhere, along with job creation and productivity — it should come as no surprise that the recovery taking hold is of «the wrong shape» — the only surprise is that pointing this out is seen as an act of coalition rebellion, not a warning to the country about the economic choices we face.

The National Housing Federation said the number of property owners will drop to just 63.8 % as house prices soar, compared to 72.5 % in 2001.

Urging people to back Brexit, the former Tory leader said Brussels had become a «friend of the haves rather than the have nots» as huge influxes force down wages and send house prices soaring.

The mayor was elected to his first term on campaign promises to curtail police officers» use of stop - and - frisk, which critics argued was tantamount to racial profiling, and to increase affordable housing following years of luxury development and soaring housing prices under his predecessor, Michael R. Bloomberg.

In her engaging and tightly reasoned book Bright - Sided (Metropolitan Books, 2009), she shows how the positive - psychology movement was born in the halcyon days of the 1990s when the economy was soaring, housing prices were skyrocketing, and positive - thinking gurus were cashing in on the motivation business.

Reduced mortgage rates could cause house prices to soar higher in red - hot markets like Toronto and Vancouver, says Phil Soper, CEO of Royal LePage.

TORONTO — The mayor of Toronto is expressing concern at the latest data on the city's hot housing market that shows home prices continue to soar.

The city's real estate board says demand for housing continues to exceed supply — one of the underlying causes of the soaring price increases.

TORONTO — The Ontario government is expected to unveil a suite of housing affordability measures in the coming days aimed at cooling soaring home prices in the Greater Toronto Area.

A recent article in the LA Times indicated, «After the home prices soared in California soared 22 % last year, a strange thing happened: Instead of homeownership decreasing because fewer people could afford houses, it rose to record levels.»

Driving the crunch these days is the fact that soaring house prices have changed the fortunes of older and younger Canadians in a very different fashion.

Last December he increased the minimum down payment on the portion of a home worth more than $ 500,000 — a measure he said was aimed at tackling «pockets of risk» in the Toronto and Vancouver housing markets, where prices have been soaring.

Like Tiny Houses, the house is as much a political statement as it is an architectural one, providing a response to the soaring price of Chinese real estate and government «land grabs» that have displaced many Chinese citizens.

And because the copula function used CDS prices to calculate correlation, it was forced to confine itself to looking at the period of time when those credit default swaps had been in existence: less than a decade, a period when house prices soared.

Didi Taihuttu expects the price of bitcoin will soar, so much so that he's selling his house, car, and other valuables to obtain even more of it.

Soaring housing prices in the Bay Area mean average annual tech salaries of $ 142,000, the country's highest, don't compensate for the lower cost of living elsewhere.

Frederick County is a bedroom community located in central Maryland, about 40 minutes west of Baltimore and 45 minutes north of Washington, D.C. Housing prices in the county are soaring in a classic scenario of supply and demand.

Historically the Central London market has been considered the best option for buy - to - let investment, however the city has been experiencing a prolonged slowdown for some time, with soaring house prices forcing thousands of people to move elsewhere.

New federal mortgage rules are creating a «policy ceiling» that will curb Toronto's soaring house prices this year, measures that would be partly offset by another Bank of Canada rate cut, the local real estate board said in a new forecast.

In May, Moody's downgraded all of Canada's big six banks, with the rating agency pointing to soaring household debt and elevated housing prices.

The Tampa real estate market has been soaring over the last year, with an increase of almost 6 % in housing prices during 2015 (Time News, Money section).

As rents have soared the past few years, and home prices have recovered from the housing crash, Attom Data studied markets throughout the country to determine whether renting or buying a home made more sense based solely on the percent of income a person would need for each of the housing choices.

Among those forces were the baby boom, in which post-World War II babies matured and entered the housing market; deregulation of the mortgage finance industry, which gave lenders the freedom to offer a wide variety of loans, and a high inflation rate that combined with soaring housing prices to convince consumers that home ownership was safe and sure.

In many parts of the country, they're dealing with a hot housing market where home prices are soaring and supply is limited.

In the first quarter of 2006, at the height of the last housing bubble, home prices soared to 34 percent overvalued.

Soaring real estate prices have led to smaller houses and condos, and the need for inventive solutions to space limitations — one of the fundamental issues in design today.