*Canada’s housing market is humming along with sales activity increasing 11% from the previous month, the largest monthly gain in more than five years. Low mortgage rates, improved affordability and greater choice of inventory have helped more renters become buyers. With sales activity rising strongly and new listings trending downward, Canada continues to move toward balanced supply and demand conditions.
Home building recorded its first broadly based increase since October last year, which is good news as this sector will hopefully cease to be such a drag on the economy. The housing market was not the only bright spot – the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said their composite leading indicator showed tentative signs of recovery in Canada. Their data indicates that Canada’s economy may be bottoming out and is likely to start heading up. Consumer confidence has been increasing for the last three months and currently stands at the highest level in 15 months.
The strengthening U.S. and international demand for manufactured and commodityrelated products should help lift Canada’s economy. However, a strengthening Loonie could serve as a counterinfluencing factor.
*Read the full report in PDF format by clicking on this text.(provided by Keller Williams Research, released June 11, 2009)
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