Real Estate

George Weston Ltd. reported its first-quarter profit rose compared with year ago, helped by strength across its businesses.

Quebec’s real estate board says Montreal-area home sales fell seven per cent on a year-over-year basis in April as buyers continue to show “a certain degree of caution.”

Home sales in the Greater Toronto Area rose on a year-over-year basis for the second straight month in April, while average selling prices moved lower again.

Former Hudson’s Bay buildings across Canada are being reimagined as owners search for new ways to repurpose massive retail spaces following the company’s bankruptcy last year.

Personal finance contributor Christopher Liew provides practical steps you can take to soften the blow, regardless of where rates land this year.

Real estate watchers say plans to downsize are on hold for plenty of retirees as the population contends with challenges such as falling home prices and a lack of choice in the market.

Home sales in Calgary declined in April compared with a year ago as the city’s real estate board says improved supply choice across the housing spectrum has reduced the urgency among potential buyers.

Home sales in British Columbia are forecast to fall 2.1 per cent this year as economic challenges push volume and prices lower across the province.

The Financial Services Regulatory Authority of Ontario (FSRA) has fined a well-known former mortgage broker from Toronto and his wife for an alleged mortgage “scheme” which they say used a loophole to avoid oversight and caused his clients “serious” economic and psychological suffering.

Canada’s commercial real estate sector could be at a turning point after the national vacancy rates for both office and industrial properties simultaneously declined for the first time since 2020, a new analysis has found.

The number of houses available for sale has dropped to historic lows in the St. John’s region, while buyers are throwing everything they have at what little is available.

Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. says the seasonally adjusted annual rate of housing starts in March fell six per cent compared with February.

For Nelgun Romero, owning a home once felt far out of reach. He moved from the Philippines to Ontario in 2021. With housing prices and the cost-of-living skyrocketing in Canada, he didn’t know what his future would look like.

The Canadian Real Estate Association has downgraded its forecast for home sales activity in 2026, while the number of homes across the country sold in March fell 2.3 per cent from a year earlier.

Choice Properties REIT and KingSett Capital have signed a deal worth more than $9 billion to buy First Capital REIT and split up the trust’s shopping centre-focused real estate portfolio.