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Useful Information from the 2012 Q1 Landcor Report (part 1 of 2)
Here are some good statistical facts about the first Quarter of Canadian Real Estate: 
1. Single Family Dwelling Status:2. Who is leading the pack in the Canadian Condo Boom3. Are Canadians still taking advantage of the Great Interest Rates?4. How indebted are Canadians compared to other countries? Not very.5. What is another difference between US and Canadian fundamentals?6. We are less Indebted in 2012 than we were in 1990's.7. Investment money from Asia is Cash - and Cash is good. 8. HK buyers blame mainlanders while mainlanders blame HK. 9. How overvalued is HK versus Vancouver? 
In Metro Van, SFD is the perched Pollyanna; protected, still spunky but gee, why is the tree shaking? On the quarterly basis, single-family detached shows a slight gain, less than one percent with the y-o-y less than five percent; which is okay but nothing like the double-digit gains of the recent past.Quebec is leading new developments in Canada: Meanwhile, the Canuck condo-building boom ramps up, as does fears of oversupply in certain markets. Nationally, ‘multiple’ urban starts rose by 27 percent in April 2012, to 158,500 starts on a seasonally adjusted basis. Quebec leads the pack, with starts up 57 percent. Previous front-runner Ontario was up 11 percent and what Bloomberg News reports as a ... more

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