纽约时报的一篇关于渥太华房市的文章有几个有意思的观点:
After lagging behind larger Canadian cities for years, Ottawa saw home prices balloon in 2020, fueled by a surge in demand and ‘inventory at historic lows.’
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- After lagging behind red-hot markets in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver for years, Ottawa, Canada’s fourth largest city, saw home prices balloon in 2020, fueled largely by a surge in demand and “inventory at historic lows,” according to Richard Rutkowski, a broker at
Engel & Völkers Ottawa. “Compared to other world capital cities, we were always undervalued. For decades, it was steady growth rather than these big fluctuations.”
- As for the demand, Ottawa benefits from stability of government employment as Canada’s capital, Mr. Wright said. A booming tech sector, including a new Amazon fulfillment center and local success stories like the e-commerce company Shopify, “also mean companies are hiring and people are coming here to work for them,” he said.
- On the luxury end, “$2 million used to be a stretch,” said Ms. Wilson, the listing broker. The number of Ottawa homes sold for over 2 million Canadian ($1.57 million) more than doubled to 48 in 2020 from 20 in 2019, according to the Multiple Listing Service. “And those high-end homes now sell within days or weeks, instead of years,” she said.
- She added that heightened activity in rural markets doesn’t mean interest in central Ottawa has waned. “It’s a sophisticated, international city with lower density and fantastic green space,” she said. “There’s not really a bad neighborhood. Ottawa is in a growth stage. In the next three to five years, you’ll be lucky to get in here.”
- Who buys in Ottawa. In fact, a Statistics Canada
report released Jan. 14 revealed record population losses in both Toronto and Montreal, with “more people moving out to other regions of their province rather than moving in” from July 2019 through July 2020.
Before the pandemic, Chinese and Indian investors had discovered Ottawa as an alternative to Toronto and Vancouver, where foreign buyers face special taxes, Mr. Rutkowski said. Fewer buyers are coming from overseas since lockdown, he said, noting that Americans make up a “negligible” portion of Ottawa’s foreign buyers.