Supply and Demand of Vancouver’s Real Estate Market

Supply and Demand of Vancouver’s Real Estate Market

Vancouver’s real estate market fundamentals remain strong. When discussing “Fundamentals”, one needs to analyze the two sides of any market, “Supply” and “Demand”. The Canadian market, particularly the Vancouver market, has suffered from a severe lack of supply for...
Supply Chain and Rising Interest

Supply Chain and Rising Interest

Real estate markets are subject to cyclical ebbs and flows. Additional black swan events such as the invasion of Ukraine by Russia and the far-reaching consequences of the war have a pronounced effect on global capital markets and interest rates. Naturally, the real...
Investing in private mortgages

Investing in private mortgages

Bank of Canada announced holding the key interest rate at 0.25% until at least 2023. In a candid press release the newly appointed Governor of Bank of Canada, Tiff Maclem, expressed the bank’s commitment to hold rates low in no uncertain terms: “It’s going to be a...