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real (estate) talk | September 2025

Posted on Sep 17, 2025


Following a significant easing of monetary policy from mid-2024 to early 2025, the Bank of Canada has since been on pause with US tariffs creating an uncertain global economic outlook and core measures of inflation elevated around 3%. A recent string of weak economic data, however, has increased the likelihood of additional rate cuts through the re...

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caught between jobs and inflation

Posted on Sep 16, 2025


September saw the release of critical reports on the US economy, centered on two questions that the Federal Reserve has been deeply wrestling with.

Over the summer, inflation appeared to be reaccelerating as tariffs filtered through to consumer prices, even as the long-resilient labor market showed signs of significant weakening. That combination po...

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ready to resume rate reductions

Posted on Sep 16, 2025


With today’s release of Consumer Price Index (CPI) data from Statistics Canada, the annual rate of inflation in Canada ticked up to 1.9%, but remained below the Bank of Canada’s 2.0% target for the fifth consecutive month. Headline inflation continues to benefit from the removal of the consumer carbon tax in April, which will affect the rate of inf...

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builders are betting on multifamily

Posted on Aug 22, 2025


The latest residential housing construction report showed starts climbed year-over-year, reaching a five-month high in July, with multifamily projects in particular leading the way.

Yet this pickup comes against a backdrop of developer caution, as high interest rates and rising construction costs have made homebuilding especially challenging in rece...

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inflation cools beyond falling gas prices

Posted on Aug 19, 2025


The latest release of Consumer Price Index (CPI) data from Statistics Canada showed a decline in the overall rate of inflation in Canada last month. Headline inflation dropped to an annual rate of 1.7% in July— and remained below the Bank of Canada’s 2.0% target—from 1.9% in June. Gasoline prices once again were the biggest factor in slowing inflat...

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soft US jobs report raises new questions

Posted on Aug 05, 2025


Economists and analysts have been combing over data releases as of late in search of indications on the direction of the economy. Despite ongoing headwinds from elevated interest rates and an uncertain and wide-ranging trade dispute, the markets have seemed surprisingly little bothered.

That changed recently, as a set of downward revisions to job gr...

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