"The Mayor’s budget task force also recommended 'optimizing the city’s real-estate portfolio to create perpetual value and generate non-tax revenue.'"
Even the *city* is cashing in on the land value frenzy now! Non-market speculators, wow that's a trip! #ToInfinityAndBeyond #ItsNotABubble #NewNormal #NeoliberalParadise
City of Vancouver becomes its own developer for for-profit housing - The Globe and Mail
https://archive.ph/gCTcV
"The city says the total value of the 2025 Assessment Roll is $442 billion, an increase of $55 billion from last year."
#ToInfinityAndBeyond #ShipAllTheWealthToLandowners
#NeoliberalParadise
City of Calgary sending out 2025 assessment notices
https://calgary.citynews.ca/2025/01/10/calgary-2025-property-assessments/
Calgary residential property values soar by 15% in 1 year
https://globalnews.ca/news/10952744/calgary-residential-property-values-soar/
Rookies! #ToInfinityAndBeyond 
Australia’s housing market ‘buckling’ under widening gap between income and home values, report finds
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jan/08/australia-housing-market-widening-gap-income-home-values
Average price for a home in Edmonton climbs to $540k in 2024 | Edmonton Journal
https://archive.ph/QDMtD
Hope you like more homeless and encampments! #ToInfinityAndBeyond
Wealth transfer already starting to drive Edmonton real estate sales | Edmonton Journal
https://archive.ph/YFr9A
"Edmonton, AB, and Simcoe County, ON, are in the lead with an estimated 10% price increase."
Oh goody. I hope people like homeless encampments, 'cause this is how you double down on homelessness.
Real estate hunting? Homes prices will spike in Canada next year | Urbanized
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/real-estate-home-prices-increasing-canada-2025
"But despite the rate cuts, Wright said people are looking to downsize from their current homes because they can no longer afford their mortgages and are 'hoping the rate cut would make their properties more appealing to potential buyers.'"
#ToInfinityAndBeyond #YouThinkItsBadNow
Even 50-bps Bank of Canada rate cut could wash over financially stressed consumers, survey suggests
https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/even-50-bps-bank-canada-164025168.html
Saskatchewan housing sales soar while inventory plummets
https://globalnews.ca/news/10795604/saskatchewan-housing-sales-inventory/
"Singapore’s housing model, where the government plays a dominating role in land ownership, property development, financing and other related aspects of society ..."
Here, that's basically called communism. So not replicable since the useful idiots would never allow it, even in BC. Nothing can help Canadian housing, it's rewriting the "rules" of economics with the forever bubble. #ToInfinityAndBeyond
Singapore has a housing model that works. Can Canada replicate it?
https://globalnews.ca/news/10683373/singapore-has-a-housing-model-that-works-can-canada-replicate-it/
Small incremental policy changes like this are essentially irrelevant. Just rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. Good marketing value, I guess. #ToInfinityAndBeyond
Mortgages in Canada: Will new rules help affordability?
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/changes-are-coming-to-mortgage-rules-will-they-help-you-afford-a-new-home-1.6984373
Edmonton has the fastest-rising home prices in Western Canada
https://dailyhive.com/edmonton/edmonton-fastest-rising-home-prices-western-canada-zoocasa
Alberta real estate buyers waiting for better interest rates: report
https://edmontonjournal.com/business/buyers-hold-for-better-interest-rates-in-alberta-real-estate
Unpaywalled https://archive.ph/dXL7U
"the rental rate ... would be going up by 83 per cent." 
"Without strong policies to level off the power disparity between landlords and tenants, rent will continue to eat first in Alberta. As the province’s population continues to surge, landlords are finding themselves in a position that allows them to increase their profit for as much as the market will bear."
Calgary tenants shocked by heavy rent increases
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/real-estate/calgary-and-edmonton/article-calgary-tenants-shocked-by-heavy-rent-increases/
Unpaywalled https://archive.ph/nRFEc
Home prices to hit new record in 2026 amid unrelenting demand: CMHC
https://financialpost.com/real-estate/home-prices-to-hit-record-2026-unrelenting-demand-cmhc
'It's crazy right now': House flipping surges to new heights in Calgary's red-hot real estate market
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/calgary-metropolitan-area-house-flipping-data-1.7143857
"Alberta maintained its status as the province with the fastest-growing rents, with total average asking prices up 20 per cent annually last month"
Canada's average rental rates reach $2,193
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/average-asking-rent-prices-reach-2-193-in-february-up-10-5-from-2023-1.6802693
Canada poised for a 'very hot' housing market this spring
https://financialpost.com/real-estate/mortgages/housing-market-spring-very-hot-canada
Vancouver-area sales and listings on the rise: real estate board
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/metro-van-feb-homes-1.7133177
Oooh I can feel the FOMO billions just waiting to spring into action...
Edmontonians signal increase in home buying intentions
https://edmontonjournal.com/life/homes/edmontonians-signal-increase-in-home-buying-intentions
