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Struggling Swedish landlord SBB took a major step toward stabilizing its finances after agreeing to sell a further stake in a portfolio of school buildings to Canada’s Brookfield Asset Management Ltd.
Policymakers on each side of the Atlantic are likely to take comfort this week from a slowdown taking hold in key underlying measures of consumer-price growth.
Singapore became the biggest investor in Japan’s real estate sector this year, lured by the yen’s weakness and growing demand in logistics and hospitality industries, according to Knight Frank LLP.
Bond investors face the crucial decision of just how much risk to take in Treasuries with 10-year yields at the highest in more than a decade and the Federal Reserve signaling it’s almost done raising rates.
Apollo Global Management Inc.’s James Zelter is “skeptical” of an economic soft landing. Ares Management LLC co-founder Michael Arougheti is concerned about the risk of a fiscal accident. Defaults will rise in coming years as riskier debt comes due for refinancing, according to Joshua Easterly of Sixth Street Partners LLC and hedge fund manager Hamza Lemssouguer.
Dec 5, 2017
, BNN Bloomberg
OSFI’s incoming B-20 underwriting guidelines in 2018 are set to affect already-gun-shy first-time buyers, according to a study released Tuesday.
According Mortgage Professionals Canada’s “Annual State of the Residential Mortgage Market in Canada”, stress-testing of mortgages will prevent an estimated 6-7.5 per cent of Canadians from achieving housing goals, even if those goals appear “reasonable” and “responsible.”
“As a result of the policies’ excessive stringency (using interest rates that are too high), housing activity will be reduced to an unnecessary degree,” the report states.
“The homeownership rate in Canada has fallen, as young, middle-class Canadians have found it increasingly difficult to make first-time purchases,” the study’s author and MPC chief economist Will Dunning said in a statement. “With the recent further tightening of mortgage rules, ownership challenges have been intensified, and the ownership rate is very likely to fall further.”
The study also estimates that 200,000 Canadian families will fail the new uninsured stress tests by the time Canada next heads to the polls for an election.
However, the study also found that Canadians still see homeownership – and the debt that comes with it – as a good investment.
While total debt among homeowners is rapidly expanding, the level of regret experienced among homeowners is on the decline, which MPC says can be attributed to higher equity ratios. The group also found that regret over homeownership diminishes as the buyers get used to, and begin to repay, that debt.
“During the past decade, some commentators have taken a negative outlook of the housing market. Yet, Canadians have consistently shown confidence in residential real estate,” MPC President and CEO Paul Taylor said in a statement. “These surveys have told us repeatedly that Canadians are happy with the real estate decisions they have made.”
On a scale of one-to-10 Canadians averaged a 3.67 when asked to react to the statement “I regret taking on the size of my mortgage.” While this is up from the 3.60 score in 2016, it is down substantially from the 2010-2014 scores that ranged from 3.82 to 4.04.
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