There are a few banks out there making noise about the Canadian housing market. Let’s see, what are their names again? Oh, here they are.. Some place called CIBC and Royal Bank and then one called Toronto Dominion. They seem particularly concerned about the market in Vancouver and Toronto.
CIBC chief executive officer Gerry McCaughey told analysts and investors in Toronto that the housing market is “leaning heavily into an area that might be peaking,” and instead will begin to soften.
His comments came as the heads of Royal Bank of Canada and Bank of Montreal also expressed concern over cooling housing prices, particularly in the condo markets in Toronto and Vancouver, where capacity is significantly overbuilt.
And from the second link:
British Columbia is forecast to have it worse, said senior economist Jacques Marcil, and will likely see “a signifcant correction” this year. Indeed, he said in a report today, the Vancouver market likely peaked last year.
The report, which examined the country’s provincial economies, projects home resales in British Columbia will sink 3.7 per cent this year, while prices decline 3.5 per cent.
