New mortgage rules cool borrowing but housing market still hot

Ottawa's stricter housing rules slowed mortgage borrowing late last year, but the new policies did little to cool the country's hottest real estate markets
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Plans for the next phase of the Water Street District in downtown Dayton call for adding 54 new housing units along and near the Mad River.
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My parents lucked out on the housing market here in Berkeley when they bought a house and moved in during January 1987. They had been outbid,
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… the waters of the U.S. rule that impacts permitting,” said NAHB Chairman Granger MacDonald, a home builder and developer from Kerrville, Texas.
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Major Canadian housing markets ranged from “cool, for now” to “eyebrow raising” last month, in the words of one economist. “Location is as important
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They're a generation with substantial student loan debt. They delayed movement in the housing market thanks to financial hardships. And now, as the
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It's a tough market for homebuyers. Prices are high and supply of available homes is low. And while the Federal Reserve's rate hike could make home
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New Polk County property assessments — arriving soon in homeowner's mailboxes — likely will show the biggest jump in home values since the
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Builder confidence in the market for newly-built single-family homes jumped six points to a level of 71, the highest reading since June 2005, on the
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Iceland's economy was paralyzed after its banking crash brought the country to its knees, but it appears that its housing market is finally starting to
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Slim pickings put a lid on home sales in the Twin Cities metro last month, … And at the current sales pace, there are enough houses on the market to
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Raymond James Bank is hiring an entry to mid-level, Securities Based Lending (SBL) Loan Analyst to process, analyze, and prepare closing
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Those rising home loan rates combined with continued home price gains could mount an increasing challenge for home sales over the coming year,
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OTTAWA — The searing real estate market in Toronto and the surrounding areas helped push home sales up last month to their highest mark in nearly
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BABY Boomers are getting ahead in retirement by downsizing to a granny flat on their own property and renting out their main home for income.
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“Typically if we have a very mild winter, the real estate business is busy,” she said. “We're stuck for at least two or three days. It does slow the market
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By Andrea HopkinsOTTAWA, March 15 (Reuters) – Canada's housing market continued to gain speed in February, led by the hot Toronto market, while
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Webster Bank owns the asset-based lending firm Webster Business Credit Corporation; the equipment finance firm Webster Capital Finance
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An “especially worrisome” Toronto housing market helped push Canadian home prices to their largest February increase ever, according to the latest
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As the Fed actively tried to boost the housing market following the crisis, the rate on a 30-year fix mortgage fell its all-time low in November 2012,
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