Canadian housing: "There have clearly been corrections in progress"
Article by Michael Babad, The Globe and Mail, March 12, 2015
"Canadian house prices may be up for the second month in a row, but a key report warns that “there have clearly been corrections” in some markets.
The Teranet-National Bank house price index rose in February by 0.1 per cent from January, but prices were actually up in just three of the 11 markets tracked in the report released Thursday.
Prices rose 1.5 per cent in Vancouver, 0.5 per cent in Victoria and 0.3 per cent in Hamilton. And that’s where it ends.
The index showed losses of 0.1 per cent in Toronto and Quebec City, 0.3 per cent in Calgary and Montreal, 0.6 per cent in Halifax, 0.8 per cent in Edmonton, 1 per cent in Winnipeg and 2.1 per cent in the Ottawa regions.
“In some markets there have clearly been corrections in progress,” said senior economist Marc Pinsonneault of National Bank."
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