Housing activity picked up speed last month, topping expectations as builders broke ground on more condominiums. Starts rose to 196,700 units in February, on a seasonally adjusted annual rate, from 185,400 units in January, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. reported Monday. Urban multiple ...
Vancouver families are more urban than ever. They are choosing a life of sushi, parks and cycling around the Sea Wall for their children over the traditional tree forts and street hockey. There are more children living downtown than in Vancouver’s most expensive residential neighbourhood. ...
Housing starts will strengthen this year and next, and that increase in supply should keep a lid on further house-price increases, Canada's national housing agency predicted Tuesday. Starts subsided to 149,081 units last year, with activity picking up in the second half. This year, housing...
It is a legal document that stretches about 30 pages and runs about 10,000 words. Its execution takes no more than a couple minutes and when the ink dries on the signature lines, more times than not it is never read and gets slipped into a file folder, largely forgotten.
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Several interesting trends emerge from an analysis of Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation's 2009 provincial starts figures. After a long history of trailing single-family starts nationally, multiple-unit starts finally caught up with singles in 2007 and then overtook them in 2008. In 2...