{"id":12431,"date":"2019-05-12T15:15:13","date_gmt":"2019-05-12T22:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roryc.ca\/blog\/?p=12431"},"modified":"2019-04-25T11:06:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T18:06:00","slug":"canadian-home-sales-remain-at-lowest-levels-in-6-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roryc.ca\/blog\/2019\/05\/canadian-home-sales-remain-at-lowest-levels-in-6-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Home Sales Remain at Lowest Levels in 6 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Canadian home sales and prices rebounded in March from a dismal showing a month earlier, but remained below historical averages.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Home sales rose 0.9% nationally while the benchmark price rose 0.8%, the Canadian Real Estate Association said Monday from Ottawa. While the results are an improvement from February, both sales and prices were down from a year earlier as homebuyers grapple with stricter mortgage rules and rising rates.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sales activity remains at some of the lowest levels recorded in the last six years, CREA said. It\u2019s the latest in a string of data that show sluggishness in the housing sector after policy makers tightened borrowing regulations, partially in a bid to slow runaway growth in Toronto and Vancouver.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cMarch results suggest local market trends are largely in a holding pattern,\u201d Gregory Klump, the realtor group\u2019s chief economist, said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nationally, sales were down 4.6% and benchmark prices fell 0.5% from a year earlier.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Toronto, sales rose 1.8% and benchmark prices gained 1.5% from a month earlier. Vancouver sales were down 5.8% while benchmark prices in the Pacific coast city fell 0.5% in March.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Brett House, deputy chief economist at Bank of Nova Scotia, said by email the latest data \u201cpoints to ongoing firming in the Toronto market, while Vancouver continues to show the effects of the tax measures that became effective at the beginning of the year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/business.financialpost.com\/real-estate\/housing-market-remains-sluggish-in-canada-despite-march-rebound\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Canadian Home Sales Remain at Lowest Levels in Six Years<\/a> by Josh Wingrove | Financial Post<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian home sales and prices rebounded in March from a dismal showing a month earlier, but remained below historical averages. 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