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https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/crea-housing-prices-canada-real-estate-1.4978545
Sales also slumped to their lowest level since 2012
CBC News · Posted: Jan 15, 2019 9:36 AM ET | Last Updated: 18 minutes ago
The average price of a Canadian home sold last month was $472,000, an almost five per cent decline in 2018.(Caolan Brennan/CBC)
The average Canadian home sold in December cost $472,000, a figure that declined by almost five per cent in 2018.
The Canadian Real Estate Association also said Tuesday that the number of homes sold was down, too, to the lowest annual pace since 2012.
December is not typically a busy year for home sales, but this year's look even worse when compared to the same month in 2017, because at the time, new rules for stress testing mortgages were about to be implemented, and buyers were rushing to buy before they came into force in January 2018.
"Sales trends were pushed higher in December 2017 by homebuyers rushing to purchase before the new federal mortgage stress test took effect at the beginning of 2018," CREA president Barb Sukkau said. "Since then, the stress test has weighed on sales to varying degrees in all Canadian housing markets and it will continue to do so this year."
Real estate prices in Toronto and Vancouver are consistently and significantly higher than they are just about anywhere else in Canada, so those two cities skew the national average higher. Stripping the two out of the equation, the average Canadian home was worth just over $375,000 last month.
Sales also slumped to their lowest level since 2012
CBC News · Posted: Jan 15, 2019 9:36 AM ET | Last Updated: 18 minutes ago
The average Canadian home sold in December cost $472,000, a figure that declined by almost five per cent in 2018.
The Canadian Real Estate Association also said Tuesday that the number of homes sold was down, too, to the lowest annual pace since 2012.
December is not typically a busy year for home sales, but this year's look even worse when compared to the same month in 2017, because at the time, new rules for stress testing mortgages were about to be implemented, and buyers were rushing to buy before they came into force in January 2018.
"Sales trends were pushed higher in December 2017 by homebuyers rushing to purchase before the new federal mortgage stress test took effect at the beginning of 2018," CREA president Barb Sukkau said. "Since then, the stress test has weighed on sales to varying degrees in all Canadian housing markets and it will continue to do so this year."
Real estate prices in Toronto and Vancouver are consistently and significantly higher than they are just about anywhere else in Canada, so those two cities skew the national average higher. Stripping the two out of the equation, the average Canadian home was worth just over $375,000 last month.
