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Canada's housing market: A victim of demographics
Demographic trends built up our housing market, and now they`re going to start pulling it apart.
Prepare yourselves, buyers and sellers. The years ahead for housing will look nothing like the last decade.
A report issued by Pacifica Partners Capital Management in B.C., describes the housing market as we know it today as a product of a wave of buying by baby boomers in their peak earning years. Now, as they start entering retirement, boomers aren`t buying houses any more and the younger generation isn`t large enough to pick up the slack.
Read the full article here.
Demographic trends built up our housing market, and now they`re going to start pulling it apart.
Prepare yourselves, buyers and sellers. The years ahead for housing will look nothing like the last decade.
A report issued by Pacifica Partners Capital Management in B.C., describes the housing market as we know it today as a product of a wave of buying by baby boomers in their peak earning years. Now, as they start entering retirement, boomers aren`t buying houses any more and the younger generation isn`t large enough to pick up the slack.
Read the full article here.