The Real Estate Channel, a Canadian television network specializing in advertising real estate, has partnered with Juwai.com; China’s #1 international property portal, and the leading Chinese language portal in Southeast Asia, including Singapore and Malaysia as well as Hong Kong and Taiwan. Recent Market trends have indicated that Chinese buyers make up the fastest growing group […]
Chinese snapping up real estate in US, Canada, Australia, and UK
By Ren Yi, Epoch Times The proportion of Chinese buyers in Vancouver, Canada, rose from 29 percent in 2011 to more than 40 percent in 2012. The number of Chinese purchasing property in Western countries and transferring their money out of China, both legally and illegally, has been significantly increasing since 2011. An analyst in […]
Why Mark Carney’s Canadian success story may be about to fall apart ?
Is the new Bank of England governor an economic genius, or just a man who’s jumping at exactly the right time? By Matthew Lynn No Bank of England governor has ever been installed in office with quite so much advance hype as Mark Carney. When he moves from running to the Bank of Canada to his […]
Canadian housing: Bursting bubble or gentle landing ?
A Brewing Canadian Crisis, and What Americans Learned About Bubbles Americans don’t like admitting failure. But after the 2008 global recession, something became unavoidably clear: The Canadian economy fared better than the United States. Your banking system didn’t crumble like ours. Your unemployment rate didn’t rise as much as ours. Your budget deficit didn’t balloon […]
Is Canadian Housing Market Falling Apart?
Last summer, a Vancouver real estate agent named Keith Roy sold his house. About a month later, he wrote a blog post about it—and set off a firestorm of criticism from fellow real estate agents. “I’m a REALTOR and I sold my own home 4 weeks ago. It wasn’t too big or too small. It’s […]
Is another bubble forming in the U.S. housing market?
Sign of Another U.S. Housing Market Bubble? In fact, since the industry nearly collapsed six years ago, new-home construction for builders like Lennar is now clearly on an upswing. According to the March 2013 report from the U.S. Commerce Department, new home construction was on pace for more than one million units for the first […]