foreign ownership

2:14PM
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It’s impossible to achieve housing affordability unless the supply of new homes keeps up with demand.


1:30PM
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If new housing supply can adequately respond to spillovers in demand, there’s no reason for bidding wars in middle-class neighbourhoods.


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Higher home prices are strongly associated with restrictive land-use regulations.


9:58AM
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A recent study found that 70 per cent of detached homes listed in Vancouver’s West Side went to Mainland Chinese buyers. But is this a problem?


8:12AM
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The prime minister's "foreign ownership" plan may make for good politics but the underlying economics is questionable, to say the least.


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Ever since Berkshire Hathaway Energy announced it would buy up Calgary-based AltaLink Ltd (an electricity transmission company with 12,000 kilometres of power lines), the predictable protectionist sentiment ramped up.