Fresh off our orgy of realtor-bashing, let’s move on. Bigger stuff to worry about. As you know, Bay Street swallowed another 300 points Thursday. Sure, new numbers showed pre-Christmas retail sales ...

I’ll say it again. For the housing market to stay robust, you need cheap money, good jobs, good wages and confident consumers. How many of those elements do you figure we have now? Or will in the ...

An Arctic blast up Pennsylvania Avenue kept Nurse Jiggles from taking her outside seat at the Inauguration, while tech billionaires and pipefitters from Arkansas completely filled the Capital rotunda.

Yesterday we brought you news that the dude in charge of Canada’s housing agency thinks real estate is a fat canard. We’re obsessed with it, says he. Realtors are drunk on their own excess. Society is ...

The hot news lately is BMO’s 2.99 Special. As I detailed here some days ago, we have a mortgage war on our hands. A fixed fiver at less than 3% has not happened in the 195 years Bank of Montreal has ...

Privately held ByteDance is about 60% owned by institutional investors such as BlackRock and General Atlantic, while its ...

The average detached house in Vancouver touched $1,002,000 in December. At the same time inflation in Europe turned negative – that’s called deflation. Bond yields dropped to historic lows. House ...

There’s one good reason 20% of your portfolio should be in USD. His name is Steve, and he works for the government. Blame him. On Wednesday Steve said in a world where interest rates have started ...

Bordering on historic, it seems. In a normal year 52% of new condo units hitting the presale market would be sapped up. Last ...

Here are some reasons the realtors who skulk among us think the worst is over. The bottom has been plumbed. The commission drought may be ending. First, inflation. A big drop last month, down to 6.3%.