Sentences with phrase «on soaring house prices»

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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...

VANCOUVER — The British Columbia government will unveil its long - awaited housing strategy on Tuesday, taking aim at skyrocketing real estate prices and soaring rents that have crippled affordability in the West Coast Canadian province, particularly in Vancouver.

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.

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.

That's because before Hamilton won a Pulitzer, a Grammy, and all those Tonys, before its cast album was streamed a half billion times on Spotify alone, before the top ticket prices soared to a Broadway record $ 849, Miranda debuted the show's first song, «Alexander Hamilton,» at the White House Poetry Jam in 2009.

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.

In the United States, the Great Moderation coincided with a housing boom, as prices soared (particularly on the coasts and in cities such as Phoenix and Las Vegas).

A new tariff on Canadian lumber threatens to squeeze an already tight housing inventory and further drive up soaring home prices.

When the spread was last so small, «the global economy was surging, housing prices were soaring, and credit concern was the last thing on most investors» minds,» the report said.

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.

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.