«Across Canada, housing affordability further eroded as
rising house prices outpaced income growth in the third quarter of 2006,» says Derek Holt, assistant chief economist, RBC, in a news release.
Not exact matches
By median value,
house prices rose by 1.4 % in large tier one cities in December,
outpacing a gain of 0.3 % for smaller tier two cities and flat growth in smaller tier three and four cities.
But as NAHB economist Natalia Siniavskaia points out in a recent Eye On
Housing blog post, it's largely due to the
rising prices of labor and materials, which are
outpacing the increasing cost of lots.