Topic: Housing Starts

Village fears over rapid development

A village could grow by a fifth if residents fail in their ongoing battle to stop developers' plans.. . In the past year, plans have been approved...

Season prompts a 'steady-as-she-goes' outlook for trusts

IT IS clear from recent government data that the commercial and residential property sectors are in the middle of a consolidation.. . According to...

Short, but busy week for economists

Labour Day will provide a bit of a breather in the coming week, but it's full speed ahead after that on the Canadian economic front. . . There is a...
If you're wondering what will happen to the housing market in the near future, the answer is: not much.. . What has become painfully clear with the...
Before the housing bubble burst, retirement real estate was on a roll. Older Americans could leverage high housing prices to buy second homes, move...

Housing costs, sales to level off next year

Greater Victoria housing prices are expected to remain stable and the cost of new homes will rise slightly above the historical average, according ...
Adam J. Levitin and Susan M. Wachter write, the bubble was a supply-side phenomenon, attributable to an excess of mispriced mortgage finance:...
Ben S. Bernanke, who told Congress in 2007 that the subprime mortgage crisis was "likely to be contained," said Thursday that he had failed to...

Link exchange

TODAY'S recommended economics writing:• Leaving Las Vegas (Paul Kedrosky)• Highlights from Bernanke's testimony on financial crisis (Political...

Inequality, the crisis and government, ctd

MY COLLEAGUE thought our discussion about where to locate the causes of the financial crisis had left the issue of inequality behind. I didn't...