{"id":26855,"date":"2025-12-05T11:11:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T19:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roryc.ca\/blog\/?p=26855"},"modified":"2025-11-26T09:59:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T17:59:39","slug":"homeownership-as-a-canadian-value-feeling-uncertainty-while-prioritizing-to-buy-real-estate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roryc.ca\/blog\/2025\/12\/homeownership-as-a-canadian-value-feeling-uncertainty-while-prioritizing-to-buy-real-estate\/","title":{"rendered":"Homeownership as A Canadian Value : Feeling Uncertainty While Prioritizing to Buy Real Estate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Canadians are anxious about the economic future, but a growing number still have a new home on their 2026 wishlist.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to Re\/Max Canada\u2019s 2026 Housing Market Outlook, 10% of Canadians plan to buy a home in the next 12 months, and half of them are first-time buyers. Re\/Max expects home sales will increase by 3.4% next year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is in spite of tariffs and a sluggish job market, which have put a damper on consumer sentiment this year. According to the report, which is based on a Leger survey, more than half of Canadians feel the economy will worsen in 2026.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">How can Canadians feel so much uncertainty, while at the same time be prepared to buy real estate?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Canadians Became &#8220;Comfortable with Uncertainty&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the root of demand is the \u201cchronic shortage\u201d of housing relative to the population that\u2019s built up over decades, coupled with record immigration, according to Re\/Max Canada president Don Kottick.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kottick told Real Estate Magazine that 2025 started on a high note for the real estate industry, until tariffs started being imposed by the United States, which caused people to get nervous, thus stalling the housing market.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI think the majority of the people would have hoped that the Canadian government could be like some of the other foreign governments and resolve their tariff issues. But they continue not to do it, and time goes on,\u201d said Kottick in an interview. \u201cIt\u2019s just a matter of the consumers getting comfortable in this state of uncertainty, and they said, \u2018You know what, I\u2019ve sat on the sidelines long enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Of the Canadians surveyed by Leger, those aged 18 to 35 are more hopeful, with 21 per cent feeling the economy will fare better next year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Homeownership as A Canadian Value<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Re\/Max brokers and agents across Canada found that families, new Canadians and retirees drove a larger share of sales in 2025, marking a significant shift from 2024, when first-time buyers led sales across most Canadian markets, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kottick said the wealth transfer between generations is spurring transactions, as are downsizing Baby Boomers. The gap between the cost of renting and owning has narrowed, said Kottick, motivating renters to get on the housing ladder also.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Plus, said Kottick, real estate continues to be the top contributor to household wealth in Canada.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cHome ownership is still part of our culture. Canadians want to buy, and they want to own their own home. That\u2019s just who we are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Return-to-Office Mandates Cause Some to Proceed with Caution<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While nearly half of respondents overall do not believe return-to-office will impact their situation, respondents aged 18 to 34 and those planning to buy in the future are thinking more about how this might affect their search, with 17% of survey respondents concerned about \u2018return to office\u2019 mandates.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kottick said he hasn\u2019t seen a monumental impact on the market due to companies calling people back to the office.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI think it\u2019s impacting some of the market, but not a substantial amount of the market,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said since the mass exodus of city dwellers to the country over the pandemic, some people are deciding rural living isn\u2019t for them, while others are deciding to be closer to transportation in case they are impacted by a return-to-office mandate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/realestatemagazine.ca\/anxious-about-the-economy-canadians-still-dream-of-homeownership-in-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kottick : Canadians Still Prioritize Homeownership in Uncertain Times<\/a> by Courtney Zwicker | Real Estate Magazine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadians are anxious about the economic future, but a growing number still have a new home on their 2026 wishlist. According to Re\/Max Canada\u2019s 2026 Housing Market Outlook, 10% of &hellip; [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.roryc.ca\/blog\/2025\/12\/homeownership-as-a-canadian-value-feeling-uncertainty-while-prioritizing-to-buy-real-estate\/\">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":[26,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homeselling-homebuying","category-real-estate"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Homeownership as A Canadian Value : Feeling Uncertainty While Prioritizing to Buy Real Estate &#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\/2025\/12\/homeownership-as-a-canadian-value-feeling-uncertainty-while-prioritizing-to-buy-real-estate\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Homeownership as A Canadian Value : Feeling Uncertainty While Prioritizing to Buy Real Estate &#8226; Rory C Real Estate | Oakwyn Realty\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Canadians are anxious about the economic future, but a growing number still have a new home on their 2026 wishlist. 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