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Ottawa’s homebuyer plan unlikely to work, for at least two reasons

Increasing demand for something in short supply will result in higher prices.


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Sale prices in the Greater Toronto Area at the end of 2016 were almost 110 per cent higher than a decade prior.


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Developer fees comprised 13.2 per cent of municipal revenue in the City of Vancouver in 2016.


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The owners of 67,000 lots currently zoned for single-family housing can now rebuild their homes as duplexes.


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Survey says large majorities of homeowners in Metro Vancouver and the Greater Toronto Area want housing prices to stop rising.


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Seattle’s rental vacancy rate jumped to 5.4 per cent—five times that of the GTA.


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Heavy-handed policies such as B.C.’s “speculation” tax target symptoms rather than causes.


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In 2016, average rents in Montreal were $835 a month compared to $1,242 in Toronto and just under $1,300 in Vancouver.


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Uninsured mortgages already require a minimum of 20 per cent down of a property’s value.