Global News published this video item, entitled “High mortgage payments, home prices make home buying difficult in Canada” – below is their description.
In Canada, the current housing market is facing a unique situation where increasing interest rates have not caused home prices to fall.
The shortage in housing supply is causing high home prices and higher mortgage payments for buyers. Experts predict that this trend could continue until interest rates decrease.
“We expect the Bank of Canada to gradually start cutting interest rates in the coming year, so that could be one element that helps improve affordability,” said Kyle Dahms, National Bank of Canada Economist.
Canada is a country in the northern part of North America. It extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering 9.98 million square kilometres (3.85 million square miles), making it the world’s second-largest country by total area.
Its southern and western border with the United States, stretching 8,891 kilometres (5,525 mi), is the world’s longest bi-national land border. Canada’s capital is Ottawa, and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver.
Various Indigenous peoples inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years before European colonization. The Canada Act 1982, which severed the vestiges of legal dependence on the British Parliament. Canada is a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy in the Westminster tradition, with a monarch and a prime minister who serves as the chair of the Cabinet and head of government.
As a highly developed country, Canada has the seventeenth-highest nominal per-capita income globally as well as the thirteenth-highest ranking in the Human Development Index. Its advanced economy is the tenth-largest in the world, relying chiefly upon its abundant natural resources and well-developed international trade networks.