Is it a Bad Time to Buy a House?
Housing affordability has been a problem in the metropolitan areas of Vancouver and Toronto for decades now. In the past couple of years, the rest of the country has experienced similar spikes in real estate prices, to the point where historically slow-and-steady markets like Edmonton and Winnipeg have seen massive home price appreciation. To make matters worse for prospective buyers, mortgage rates have roughly tripled since 2021, from less than 2% to over 6% for a five-year fixed rate mortgage...