Send us a text In this episode of The Canadian Mortgage Show, Alex Pang and Alex Shanks break down a packed week of news that directly affects Canadian homeowners, buyers, and investors. We start with the new federal budget: a $78B deficit, capital spending framed as “generational investments,” and big ticket items like $25B for housing, $30B for defense, and $115B for infrastructure—but almost no direct bailout for housing. What does that mean for interest rates, jobs, and home prices over t...
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Send us a text In this episode of The Canadian Mortgage Show, Alex Pang and Alex Shanks break down a packed week of news that directly affects Canadian homeowners, buyers, and investors. We start with the new federal budget: a $78B deficit, capital spending framed as “generational investments,” and big ticket items like $25B for housing, $30B for defense, and $115B for infrastructure—but almost no direct bailout for housing. What does that mean for interest rates, jobs, and home prices over t...
Episode 59: Why Pre-Sales Stalled (and What Could Fix It) | Brendon Ogmundson, BCREA
The Canadian Mortgage Show
46 minutes
3 weeks ago
Episode 59: Why Pre-Sales Stalled (and What Could Fix It) | Brendon Ogmundson, BCREA
Send us a text BCREA Chief Economist Brendon Ogmundson joins Alex Pang and Alex Shanks to unpack the real state of BC housing: the surprising 2025 sales slowdown and rebound pockets, why pre-sales are struggling, and the capital problem behind our 600k-homes target. We dig into foreign-buyer rules (and the “Australia model”), REITs vs. rents, development charges and permitting bottlenecks, mass-timber/missing-middle solutions, and practical policy tweaks—like easing the stress-test buffer and...
The Canadian Mortgage Show
Send us a text In this episode of The Canadian Mortgage Show, Alex Pang and Alex Shanks break down a packed week of news that directly affects Canadian homeowners, buyers, and investors. We start with the new federal budget: a $78B deficit, capital spending framed as “generational investments,” and big ticket items like $25B for housing, $30B for defense, and $115B for infrastructure—but almost no direct bailout for housing. What does that mean for interest rates, jobs, and home prices over t...
