{"id":11146,"date":"2018-12-20T10:10:23","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T18:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roryc.ca\/blog\/?p=11146"},"modified":"2018-12-12T10:42:30","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T18:42:30","slug":"the-housing-market-is-the-midst-of-an-adjustment-in-both-toronto-vancouver-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roryc.ca\/blog\/2018\/12\/the-housing-market-is-the-midst-of-an-adjustment-in-both-toronto-vancouver-markets\/","title":{"rendered":"The Housing Market is The Midst of An Adjustment in Both Toronto &#038; Vancouver Markets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Economists are rolling out their 2019 forecasts for the Canadian housing market, and one in particular doesn\u2019t have high hopes for where the market is headed in the new year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to Benjamin Tal, deputy chief economist at CIBC, there could be plenty of good news in store for the Canadian economy in 2019 \u2014 but the housing market won\u2019t be part of it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cA lot of good things can happen,\u201d he writes, in his most recent note. \u201cMaybe the pipeline issue will be resolved, maybe business investment will pick up dramatically, maybe the US and China will become friends again, and maybe the housing market will turn a corner and\u2026.maybe pigs will fly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While some industry watchers had written that the housing market might be stabilizing earlier this fall, a particularly rough set of November activity numbers has Tal saying that the market still has a long way to go before it returns to its status as a boon to the Canadian economy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWith home sales in Toronto and Vancouver falling by 15 and 43 percent year-over-year respectively in November, the housing market is far from \u2018stabilizing\u2019 as the Bank of Canada is suggesting,\u201d he writes. \u201cIn fact, we are in the midst of an adjustment in both markets with the high-rise segment of the market the next shoe to fall.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While the relatively more affordable condo market has so far managed to continue posting month-over-month increases in sales and prices, the low-rise segment in both of these major cities has been struggling all year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">All told, both Tal and his colleague Royce Mendes believe that the housing market will continue to dampen the Canadian economy in 2019.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe still believe that housing will be a drag on GDP next year, contrary to the Bank of Canada\u2019s last set of projections,\u201d writes Mendes in his most recent note. \u201cAnother soft print would reinforce our revised forecast that a pause in rates over the next few months looks likely.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livabl.com\/2018\/12\/economist-thinks-canadian-housing-market-heat-next-year-pigs-fly.html\">This Economist Thinks The Canadian Housing Market Could Heat Up Next Year &#8211; When Pigs Fly<\/a> by Sarah Niedoba | Livabl<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Economists are rolling out their 2019 forecasts for the Canadian housing market, and one in particular doesn\u2019t have high hopes for where the market is headed in the new year. &hellip; [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.roryc.ca\/blog\/2018\/12\/the-housing-market-is-the-midst-of-an-adjustment-in-both-toronto-vancouver-markets\/\">read more<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-updates"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Housing Market is The Midst of An Adjustment in Both Toronto &amp; Vancouver Markets &#8226; Rory C Real Estate | Oakwyn Realty<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.roryc.ca\/blog\/2018\/12\/the-housing-market-is-the-midst-of-an-adjustment-in-both-toronto-vancouver-markets\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"The Housing Market is The Midst of An Adjustment in Both Toronto &amp; 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