Real Estate
Canada Home Prices Slide Most Since at Least 2005 on Rates
- Price decline accelerates to 1.9% in June; Toronto suburbs hit
- Bank of Canada has increased borrowing costs aggressively
Benchmark home prices in and around Toronto have fallen 4.5% in three months.
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Canadian home prices saw their biggest monthly decline in at least 17 years as the impact of higher interest rates began to spread across the country.
The benchmark price of a home fell 1.9% in June versus the previous month, according to data released Friday by the Canadian Real Estate Association. That’s the third straight month of falling prices, and the biggest one-time drop in data going back to 2005.