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By Julian Beltrame, The Canadian Press OTTAWA - Borrowing costs for consumers and businesses are slated to start rising moderately after the Bank of Canada moved off its ultra-stimulative monetary policy Tuesday, hiking its trendsetting interest rate
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by Andrew Pyle, for Yahoo! Canada Finance Thursday, May 13, 2010 Now that Europe appears to have bought itself some time from those vicious currency and bond speculators (and what a price tag, at a cool trillion dollars), individuals are also feeling
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By Derek Scott, The Canadian Press VANCOUVER, B.C. - The same things that are squeezing first-time homebuyers these days are creating a boom for mortgage brokers. With interest rates climbing and new rules that crack down on who qualifies for a mortgage,
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Mon Mar 29, 5:27 PM Sunny Freeman, The Canadian Press Enlarge Photo (The Canadian Press) By Sunny Freeman, The Canadian Press TORONTO - Rising mortgage rates announced Monday signal the end of historically low home borrowing costs and present Canadian
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By The Canadian Press TORONTO - A new report says the cost of owning a home in Canada increased slightly across all housing segments in the closing months of 2009. RBC Economics says rising prices made it more expensive to own a home, but that was partly
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By The Canadian Press OTTAWA - The New Housing Price Index rose 0.4 per cent for the third straight month in January. Statistics Canada reports St. John's, N.L., led the way at 1.7 per cent growth, followed by Winnipeg (0.7), and Toronto and Oshawa
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By David Johnston, The Gazette February 4, 2010 The 2010 municipal budget season is over and here are the final standings: Highest tax increase on the island of Montreal: Baie d'Urfé, 8.5 per cent. Lowest tax increase on the island of Montreal:
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Île-des-Soeurs, January 19, 2010 –Québec’s provincial real estate market performed well in 2009, with sales increasing by 3 per cent over 2008 for a total of 79,185 MLS ® sales transactions, according to the Québec
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Mon Dec 21, 11:24 AM OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada may require people taking out mortgages to come up with a larger downpayment if it looks like indebtedness is getting too high, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said in a interview released late on Sunday. Flaherty's
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OTTAWA - Canadian home resales improved 41.5 per cent year over year to 42,288 units in October, a record for the month, according to the Canadian Real Estate Association . The national average price for homes listed on the Multiple Listing Service also
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OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's economy will pull out of its worst recession since the early 1990s this quarter, the Bank of Canada said on Thursday, and the world economy has likely averted a worst-case scenario and is bottoming out. "With the economy
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Île-des-Sœurs, July 7, 2009 MLS ® sales in the Montréal Metropolitan Area increased by 14 per cent in June 2009 compared to June 2008, the second consecutive monthly increase, reported the Greater Montréal Real Estate Board.
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OTTAWA (Reuters) - Sales of existing homes in Canada jumped 31.5 percent in the second quarter from the first and saw their first year-over-year quarterly increase since before the peak of the financial crisis, the Canadian Real Estate Association said
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Indexes vary Alia McMullen Financial Post CREDIT: Justin Sullivan, Getty Images CREDIT: Teranet, Andrew Barr, National Post CREDIT: The Canadian Real Estate Association, Andrew Barr, National Post The Canadian housing market is beginning to look like
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TORONTO (Reuters) - Resale prices for Canadian homes rose to their highest average on record in May, while sales activity climbed for a fourth straight month as consumer confidence strengthened, according to an industry report released on Monday. But
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