Two Real Estate Stories in the News for Sunday, March 11, 2018
RBC issues warning over foreign money in real estate
Foreign money “distorting” the country’s biggest housing markets is bad for Canada, RBC’s CEO warned Tuesday.
Bloomberg Canada reported that at an RBC-hosted conference in New York March 6, David McKay said, “We do not need foreign capital using Canadian real estate as a piggy bank. If capital is coming in to sit in a home, unproductively, and is distorting your marketplace and the livelihood of your residents — no thank you.”
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As sales plunge, Canada’s housing market struggles to adjust to new mortgage rules
2018 hasn’t been kind to the Canadian real estate market so far — national home sales dropped steeply in January, and remained weak in February. According to a new report from RBC, it will be awhile before most markets get back on their feet.
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