TORONTO (MarketWatch) — Fears of a housing bubble in Canada are overstated, the head of Canada’s largest bank by assets said Tuesday. “We feel pretty good about the housing market,” Royal Bank of Canada Chief Executive Gordon Nixon said at a Bloomberg Canada Economic Summit in Toronto. “I would love to see the rhetoric come down [...]

Richmond’s hotspot, No.3 Road and Westminster Highway, is about to get even hotter with the addition of the Mandarin Residences (The Wall Group of Companies with The Fairborne Group). Location, location, location! The Mandarin Residences is across the street from Richmond Centre where you find large retailers such as The Bay, Sport Chek, Old Navy, [...]

Fraser Valley house hunters looking for good buys; keeping prices resilient The Fraser Valley Real Estate Board (FVREB) processed 1,412 sales on its Multiple Listing Service® (MLS®) in March, a decrease of 22 per cent compared to March of last year, however only 13 per cent less than the 10-year average of 1,626 sales for [...]

2012 is going to be a year of confusing economic signals, mixed real estate messages and fearful investors. In other words: the perfect environment for the sophisticated long-term real estate investor. Over the last 20 years, my research team and I have been analyzing the Canadian real estate markets from a unique point of view [...]

After surprising growth in 2011, Greater Vancouver real estate prices will rise just two per cent in 2012, Canada Mortgage and Housing is forecasting. In 2011, CHMC predicted price growth of just three per cent, tempered by an expectation of higher interest rates, but interest rates stayed low and prices ultimately jumped 16 to 17 [...]