Canada home prices sag 4.1 pct in February
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Re: Canada home prices sag 4.1 pct in February
You have to remember the housing market is not liquid like the stock market and it takes some time for reality to strike home and people start to chase the market downwards.
Look towards the US most areas there have bean falling for 3 years now and still are not showing signs of slowing down.
I purchased my house four years ago for $615000 was valued for line of credit six months ago for $1.2 million, I truly expect it to drop to around ½ million before things turn around.
Important point for me was it was purchased as a home and not any sort of investment.
Would I by now definitely not would personally rent for at least two years until we see a good six months of stabilization.
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Joined: Aug 2005
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Re: Canada home prices sag 4.1 pct in February
People still buy Real Estate in the worst of times, even in the recession of the 70's when employment was higher than now, as were interest rates, the market was still active, slower but active.
Donald Trump made his "real" money by buying Manhattan real estate when everyone else was selling.
Donald Trump made his "real" money by buying Manhattan real estate when everyone else was selling.
- Stealing the wealth of those that have cash to give to those that have debt (via low interest rates, inflation, QE)
- Stealing the productivity of future generations (via the tax required to pay for current government borrowing)
In reality the solution to debt isn't more debt and you can't create money from money. The solution is work.
As you can probably tell that I think the governments are at best a bunch of idiots and at worst scheming liars and thieves - they can blame the banks if they like, but this mess would have been smaller had interest rates gone up earlier to prevent real estate markets going insane. The problem was that money was cheap and all that money had to go somewhere - this time it went into real-estate instead of tulip bulbs.
I only know Vancouver and the surrounding satellite towns - I would say that currently asking prices are aspirational and don't really reflect the new reality - either that or Vancouverites just like indenturing themselves (which anything above 4x effectively is)
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Joined: Apr 2005
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Re: Canada home prices sag 4.1 pct in February
You probably need to tell everybody ware you live for this to mean any think. Asking prices don’t seem to be falling much in my area (Summerland BC) either but there are now lots of houses sitting unsold on the market for some time.
You have to remember the housing market is not liquid like the stock market and it takes some time for reality to strike home and people start to chase the market downwards.
Look towards the US most areas there have bean falling for 3 years now and still are not showing signs of slowing down.
I purchased my house four years ago for $615000 was valued for line of credit six months ago for $1.2 million, I truly expect it to drop to around ½ million before things turn around.
Important point for me was it was purchased as a home and not any sort of investment.
Would I by now definitely not would personally rent for at least two years until we see a good six months of stabilization.
You have to remember the housing market is not liquid like the stock market and it takes some time for reality to strike home and people start to chase the market downwards.
Look towards the US most areas there have bean falling for 3 years now and still are not showing signs of slowing down.
I purchased my house four years ago for $615000 was valued for line of credit six months ago for $1.2 million, I truly expect it to drop to around ½ million before things turn around.
Important point for me was it was purchased as a home and not any sort of investment.
Would I by now definitely not would personally rent for at least two years until we see a good six months of stabilization.