
Is the Canadian market heading down the road to a crash?
What’s the Canadian real estate market doing? I asked myself this question at the end of last season..about June of this year. Not having a huge number of Canadian buyers in my real estate sales, it was interesting to hear all the agents lamenting about the fleeing of Canadians from our market. We do have a large number of Canadians who purchased their Winter Vacation homes in the desert. Our gorgeous winters, and quick flights to Vancouver certainly helped this market. But also..Canadians LOVE a deal!! When we were in recovery from our own real estate bomb, which ended about 4th quarter of 2011, scores of Canadians and other International buyers and investors, as well as our own Fix-n-flippers, snapped up bargain properties. We have been moving laterally for the past several years in our price/sf. real estate closings, and our market has largely stabilized. An interesting read this morning in the Vancouver Sun, caused me to think about the Canadian real estate market and how it might affect our own Coachella Valley real estate market. Huge Tax Windfall highlights BC’s real estate dependence. [Read more…]















