Quick analysis of Bank of Canada’s latest interest rate no-change
Posted on Jun 09, 2025
The Bank of Canada doesn’t take a summer vacation. The fifth of eight interest-rate announcements this year will be made in the middle of summer — July 30 is the listed date. In such volatile economic times, it’s likely to attract more attention than mid-summer news usually does.
The fourth announcement (June 4) produced the widely-anticipated resul...
Condo sales statistics worthy of interpretation
Posted on Jun 03, 2025
It’s impossible to avoid the headlines about condos and their place in the current real estate market.
“The condo market is slowing down”
“Metro Vancouver condo sales dropped 20 per cent”
“Vancouver condo market shows signs of crashing”
One realtor was even heard to say, on television, that there were more for-sale signs than posts to put them in t...