Housing Analysis

The stalwart Metro Vancouver housing starts and completions graph (conceived by Van Housing Blogger over a decade ago) has been updated for ...

Moar housing is on the way:

OTTAWA, July 27, 2016 –   Evidence of problematic conditions in Canada’s housing market as a whole has increased from weak to moderate s...

by Tom Bradley, Steadyhand Investment Funds In the last couple of weeks, there has been two excellent reports published on the Canadian hou...

Below are CMHC starts, completions and under construction for Vancouver CMA to April 2014. Starts and completions are displayed as 12 month ...

Below are CMHC starts, completions and under construction for Vancouver CMA to January 2014. Starts and completions are displayed as 12 mont...

Below are CMHC starts, completions and under construction for Vancouver CMA to September 2013. Starts and completions are displayed as 12 mo...

Here is the chart for housing starts, completions, and under construction for Vancouver Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) to May 2013: B...

Here is the chart for housing starts, completions, and under construction for Vancouver Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) to April 2013 with Ma...

A method of measuring relative valuation is to look at price-rent ratios, a "price-earnings" ratio for real estate. Vancouver does...

Some rumours  abound of maximum amortization lengths for uninsured mortgages being set to 25 years as a form of macroprudential easing of re...

A quick and dirty gauge is to ask, given current interest rates and rates used for loan qualification requirements, what is the amount of lo...

Here is the chart for housing starts, completions, and under construction for Vancouver Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) to February 2013 wit...

Here is the chart for housing starts, completions, and under construction for Vancouver Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) to November 2012 with...

Here is the chart for housing starts, completions, and under construction for Vancouver Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) to October 2012: ...

Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty was quoted recently : "Speaking on CBC Radio, Flaherty said he had no plans to take further a...

Here are the charts for housing starts, completions, and under construction for Vancouver Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) to August 2012, ...

I have been continually hearing that Canadians and Canadian lenders have been more prudent in lending than their American counterparts. I wa...

Here are mohican/VHB's charts for housing starts, completions, and under construction for Vancouver Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) to...

An anomaly has presented itself in some CMHC data regarding matching the completed, absorbed, and unabsorbed datasets available through Stat...