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_builder_version=&#8221;4.18.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/wahi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Why-This-Housing-Market-is-Now-Canadas-Real-Estate-Soft-Spot-.jpg&#8221; alt=&#8221;The number of homes on the market continues to climb in major Canadian cities giving some buyers a shot at a discount.&#8221; title_text=&#8221;Why-This-Housing-Market-is-Now-Canada&#8217;s-Real-Estate-Soft-Spot-&#8221; align=&#8221;center&#8221; force_fullwidth=&#8221;on&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.24.2&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;1px||29px|||&#8221; border_radii=&#8221;on|32px|32px|32px|32px&#8221; border_radii_tablet=&#8221;on|32px|32px|32px|32px&#8221; border_radii_phone=&#8221;on|0px|0px|0px|0px&#8221; border_radii_last_edited=&#8221;on|desktop&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.24.2&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; text_font_size=&#8221;1.13rem&#8221; text_line_height=&#8221;1.75rem&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;-18px||2px|||&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;||7px||false|true&#8221; custom_padding_tablet=&#8221;||7px||false|true&#8221; custom_padding_phone=&#8221;|15px|7px|15px|false|true&#8221; custom_padding_last_edited=&#8221;on|phone&#8221; text_font_size_tablet=&#8221;1.13rem&#8221; text_font_size_phone=&#8221;0.9rem&#8221; text_font_size_last_edited=&#8221;on|phone&#8221; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recent interest-rate cuts have yet to ignite home sales activity in Ontario, market-watchers say. <\/span><\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.18.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;32px||23px|||&#8221; da_disable_devices=&#8221;off|off|off&#8221; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; da_is_popup=&#8221;off&#8221; 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header_4_line_height=&#8221;1.88rem&#8221; min_height=&#8221;765.1px&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;6px|||||&#8221; text_font_size_tablet=&#8221;21px&#8221; text_font_size_phone=&#8221;16px&#8221; text_font_size_last_edited=&#8221;on|phone&#8221; header_2_font_size_tablet=&#8221;36px&#8221; header_2_font_size_phone=&#8221;25px&#8221; header_2_font_size_last_edited=&#8221;on|phone&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<h2><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wahi.com\/ca\/en\/real-estate\/on\"   title=\"real estate\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"956\">real estate<\/a> dynamics in Prairies and Canada\u2019s east coast continue to favour sellers, and Vancouver and Montreal show signs of balance, the country&#8217;s biggest housing market remains its coolest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOntario remains the soft spot, with buyers\u2019 markets still scattered across various areas of the province,\u201d writes Robert Kavcic, BMO\u2019s Senior Economist and Director of Economics, in a <a href=\"https:\/\/economics.bmo.com\/en\/publications\/detail\/ff60429d-7d1c-4dac-b566-2e7f8883c2be\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Canadian Housing Monitor report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Greater Toronto Area, by far the province\u2019s largest market by sales volume, saw its condo segment enter <a href=\"https:\/\/economics.cibccm.com\/cds?id=a8016377-dea6-4db6-abf8-e59238ae34d3&amp;flag=E\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recessionary territory<\/a> earlier this year, with investors fleeing amid higher borrowing costs. The trend has persisted into the fall, with condo prices down 7.5% on a year-over-year basis in September. \u201cToronto continues to see a wave of condo supply saturate the market,\u201d notes BMO\u2019s Kavcic.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Softer market conditions, which could be favourable for homebuyers but not sellers, weren\u2019t limited to condos or Toronto. The BMO report also flags the city of <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wahi.com\/ca\/en\/real-estate\/on\/simcoe\/barrie\" title=\"Barrie\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\" data-wpil-monitor-id=\"953\">Barrie<\/a>, the Kawarthas, and the Niagara area as particularly sluggish secondary markets overall. In each of these markets, the sales-to-new listings ratio \u2014 which compares the rate of home sales with the pace at which new homes are put on the market \u2014 was below 40% in September.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A ratio below 40%\u00a0 means that for every 10 homes that are newly listed, fewer than four homes sell. Generally, ratios between 40-60% reflect market balance. Anything below this range is considered a buyer\u2019s market and anything above a seller\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>Kavcic points out that the latest reading in Toronto pegs the sales-to-new listings ratio at 35.5%, or \u201cthe lowest level since the 2009 recession.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wahi.com\/ca\/en\/real-estate\/on\/waterloo\" title=\"Waterloo\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\" data-wpil-monitor-id=\"957\">Waterloo<\/a> may be an outlier in Ontario. There, Wahi has observed relatively stronger demand, with roughly <a href=\"https:\/\/wahi.com\/ca\/en\/learning-centre\/real-estate-101\/buy\/waterloo-market-pulse-q3-2024\/\">half of the region\u2019s neighbourhoods<\/a> still seeing home prices bid up as of the third quarter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><b>Affordability and migration juice housing demand in the Prairies and Atlantic Canada<br \/><\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Contrast to the mostly sluggish Ontario markets and the balance in B.C. (in Vancouver and <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wahi.com\/ca\/en\/real-estate\/bc\/capital\/victoria\" title=\"Victoria\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\" data-wpil-monitor-id=\"954\">Victoria<\/a>, the sales-to-new-listings ratios were in the 40% range), Calgary, Edmonton, and Winnipeg had sales-to-new listings ratios higher than 70%. \u201c[S]ellers\u2019 markets persist across much of the Prairies, as well as Atlantic Canada, where relative affordability and inward migration flows continue to support demand,\u201d notes Kavcic.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span><\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.18.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;32px||23px|||&#8221; da_disable_devices=&#8221;off|off|off&#8221; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; da_is_popup=&#8221;off&#8221; 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when you have lots of inventory, it generally keeps a lid on prices.\u201d<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Demand, meanwhile, has yet to catch up to a glut of inventory that began piling up mid-year. \u201cSellers came off the sidelines faster than buyers; buyers have been waiting, waiting for more interest rate decreases [and] potentially now waiting for these new mortgage rules to take effect,\u201d she explains. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/wahi.com\/ca\/en\/learning-centre\/real-estate-101\/buy\/new-mortgage-rules-canadian-homebuyers-housing-market\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">new mortgage rules<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which are expected to boost demand, include 30-year amortization periods for all first-time and new-build buyers, as well as raising the limit on insurable mortgages to homes priced up to $1.5 million. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The former rule will let homebuyers spread out monthly mortgage payments over a longer period, thus lowering them, while the latter increases the budget for qualified homebuyers with downpayments of less than 20%. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, these rules don\u2019t come into effect until Dec. 15. \u201cThat\u2019s very late in the season, not typically a time when people are rushing to buy homes \u2014 right before the holidays,\u201d says Yolevski.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>Although the Bank of Canada has cut the mortgage-influencing overnight rate three times since June, BMO\u2019s Kavcic adds that it hasn\u2019t been enough to change the prevailing regional trends \u2014 yet. \u201cWe\u2019re moving further down the rate-relief path, but it\u2019s still going to take more to get the market moving again,\u201d he writes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>With the central bank\u2019s next rate announcement scheduled for Oct. 23, it remains to be seen whether one more cut will be enough to turn markets around in Canada\u2019s so-called real estate soft spot. <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span><\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.18.0&#8243; 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