Nearly a quarter of condos in Vancouver are empty or occupied by non-residents in some dense areas of downtown, a signal that investors play a significant role in the city’s housing market.
And the city overall has a much higher rate of empty apartments and houses than other Canadian cities, with a rate closer to places like New York and San Francisco at the height of their mortgage crisis i ...
Ottawa intends to introduce some limits on the use of mortgage insurance, a move it hopes will increase market discipline in residential lending and reduce taxpayer exposure to the housing sector.
The changes, announced in the federal budget on Thursday, will not have a direct effect on consumers wanting to take out mortgages. But it could cause banks to raise their rates or limit their lend ...
It's not quite an austerity budget, but it's the closest Canada has come in nearly 20 years.
The Conservative government's 2013 spending plan is heavy with references to skills training, job creation and infrastructure spending but, above all, it's focused on sticking to Finance Minister Jim Flaherty's long-touted plan to balance the books by 2015.
http://www.bnn.ca/News/2013/3/21/Budget-20 ...
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Last October, my girlfriends and I stayed at a gorgeous bed & breakfast here in Toronto the night before my wedding. I booked it online without knowing much about it, other than its proximity to Allan Gardens for pre-wedding photos and a short walking distance to our wedding venue, The St. Lawrence Market.Well, we rolled into the Banting House Inn and we were pleasantly surprised. For such re ...