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Residential Markets Hot … Maybe Too Hot: Canada’s Two-Year Housing Outlook—April 2021
Residential Markets Hot … Maybe Too Hot: Canada’s Two-Year Housing Outlook—April 2021
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- Canadian resale markets are in a frenzy, fuelled mainly by record-low interest rates and a desire for more living space.
- Some analysts warn that price increases are “feeding on themselves” and warn of a housing bubble whose collapse would have wide-ranging and negative economic effects. Calls for regulatory action are growing.
- Work-from-home provisions have led many big-city commuters to seek bigger homes away from major cities. This has bolstered resale markets outside of large cities but curbed demand for smaller units downtown.
- We expect housing starts to edge higher to 220,400 units in 2021, up from 217,800 in 2020, but then to pull back to just under 212,000 units in 2022. Starts will erode only modestly thereafter as household formation remains solid.
- Canada’s national average resale price rose nearly 12 per cent in 2020. Continuing strength in early 2021 suggests a further 12 per cent rise this year if no regulatory action is taken. This pace is unsustainable, and we expect price declines of 6.5 per cent in 2022 and 2.1 per cent in 2023 even without regulatory action.
- Current heat has bolstered weak pre-pandemic housing markets in Alberta and Saskatchewan, but we expect them to soften disproportionately as the national market cools.
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