Winnipeg’s Real Estate Market: A bubble waiting to burst!
Is there a Canadian housing bubble? Is there a bubble right here in Winnipeg? If we were to listen to the ramblings of 99% of our Real Estate agents or the Winnipeg Real Estate Board, there would be a resounding NO!
However, it is of course in their best interest to keep pushing Real Estate along with their banking buddies, so right out of the gate their words hold little weight on this issue. The best way to get a true picture of where our current state of affairs is truly at, sits with global investors and economic leaders. And, every one of them from Doug Casey to Max Keiser say look out - because Canada is about to crash and crash hard.
The top reasons they give is that since 1999, Canadian banks have systematically lowered mortgage lending standards, encouraged
banks to take excessive risk, eliminated the need for money when buying
real estate, and turned what used to be an accomplishment and a
privilege into a right and an entitlement.Sound familiar to our US friends sub-prime issues of 2008?
So, this brings into light the question, is there a Sub-Prime problem in Canada? When Doug Casey was asked this very question he said absolutely! In fact both he & Max Keiser both agree, our American friends have nothing on us when it comes to taking a
perfectly useful asset like a home and turning it into a pile of casino
chips!
Canadians have indeed ventured down the same road that the Americans forged. We've turned home
ownership into a cult, then an economic holy grail, only difference is somehow we think it’s different here. Not only is this incorrect. The reality is we practically invented it.
Now, for the uninitiated, what exactly is Sub-Prime? Well, “Subprime” simply means lending to people who would not qualify under
traditional guidelines. For example, buying a home once meant you needed
a 25% down payment, then the bank would cough up the other 3/4's. Prior to 1999, nobody with less than a 10% down could
qualify for mortgage insurance, (or get home financing). But after that, the
feds dropped the bar to just 5% – opening the floodgates for both credit
and higher house prices. Suddenly banks were encouraged to give 95%
financing, since the taxpayers were wiping away the risk through CMHC.
Subprime was born in Canada!
More incredibly, in 2003 CMHC eliminated all restrictions on the
amount of money people could borrow in a high-ratio, high-risk loan, and
still be insured. Suddenly, the way was clear for
beater Vancouver & Toronto 2-bedroom / 1-bathroom shacks to change hands for over a million-dollars with deposits small enough to fit
on a few credit cards.
In fact, once the Harper Conservatives took office – just as the US
housing market was imploding – Canada embraced the sub prime culture as
no country on Earth has done before. Over many objections by MLA's, economists and scholars alike, Parliament incredibly approved
dangerous 40-year-long amortizations and 0% down payments, which ignited the
greatest surge in Canadian real estate values ever. (Since then, 40 has turned
into 35, then to 30 and soon to 25, as the feds struggle to contain the
damage yet to come.)
The result has been an orgy of personal and household debt. After
all, when you don’t really need money to buy a house, why wouldn’t you?
And, hey - with that new house why not toss in a new car for the wife and a new truck for hubby. And, gee-whiz - while we're at it, why not grab that cottage at the lake, and snag a new boat, motorcycle & RV as well. After all, you're worth it - aren't you... But, can you truly afford it? Consumer debt in Canada now equals 92% of the entire Canadian economy. This is just a hair
below the level US debt achieved before America exploded in 2008.
But why stop with shrinking down payments, fluffing risk, pushing debt
and inflating prices? Not content with financing houses for people
without savings or investments, our big banks have gone that final, noble,
sub prime mile and totally eliminated the need for money. Most of them
offer ‘Cash-back” mortgages, (so once you agree to borrow a steaming pile
of debt, they’ll give you enough cash to close the house deal). CIBC,
for example, hands over 7% of the borrowed amount (95% of the house
value), for 102% financing. So, there's the incentive for that shiny new boat & RV! Oh Yeah!
Not only that, but ‘self-recognition’ mortgages have allowed the
self-employed, commissioned salespeople and other dangerous types to
score mortgages without even verifying their incomes. So not only does
Canada offer no-money-down deals, but also liar loans, interest-only
mortgages, payment-skipping and 125% financing. All backed by Ottawa,
which means lenders smile every time a Wal-Mart greeter with no assets
buys a $500,000 home in Lindenwoods.
So, what now? Well, as our great Canadian Real Estate bubble begins to fall apart the Big-Banks are putting brokers on the chopping block as demand for prime
borrowers is shrinking. BMO and CIBC have already been expanding their
mortgage retail business. Best part is, when the sub-primes in Canada finally implode, the banks will blame brokers.
And, what about the weekly propaganda still coming from the Winnipeg Real Estate Board? These realtors know full well that Winnipeg housing is in a bubble, and they know their
propaganda of lies has fooled many. They outright say people in Winnipeg are a herd
of sheep and to a large extent, they're absolutely correct.
Will you fall for the continued WREB propaganda of lies and buy in this market?
Kevin F.
Winnipeg Report Blog
48 comments:
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If you look closely at that chart shown above in this article, you'll notice that the US Market softened slightly before they crashed... This is EXACTLY what the Canadian market is doing right now. So, we could see a crash come this year. And, it's going to be a very long BAD one too. I agree with Nicole Foss, in 7-10 years houses in Canada will likely loose 90% of their present market value. This is going to devastate many, many homeowners.
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Therrs no real erstate buble in canada, this is all a bunch of crap. Houses will just keep going up and wages will eventually match the home prices. This is all a bunch of rubbish. They'll be a bit of a corectsion but that it. Just fear mongerring here.
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@anonymous,
Wow, two questions... are you totally selectively blind to reality? And, ever heard of SpellCheck?
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I have not met a single home owner who would buy their own house at the price they think they can sell it for. What does that actually mean?
>>>> BUBBLE <<<<
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The Bubble message is officially mainstream Canadian News… check out what’s on Global TV’s morning show in Toronto tomorrow:
Editor of Toronto Life Real Estate Guide, Maryam Sanati, is here to talk about the “Canadian housing bubble”.
http://www.globaltoronto.com/Pages/MorningSegment.aspx?id=6442585314
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Sorry I Gave the Wrong Link:
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As Jim Rogers says, ” when the masses flood to an asset, its time to short.”
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It will be awhile yet before any of this starts sinking into 90% of Canadians thick skulls. Most will be left standing on the curb, scratching they’re heads wondering what the F%#* just happened? “This was Canada, this wasn’t supposed to happen here”
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Just wait until around 2015 - 2016 when the bloody idiots that caused all of this mess begin chanting the new buzz-word, "Austerity." Oh the politicians will still keep their huge bloated salaries for doing absolutely jack-shit (except wrecking everything further), but you & I will be forced to pay, pay, pay to fund it all. And, did I mention that a loaf of bread will be $5.00+, crime will be out of control, our taxes will be through the roof, and gas will cost $8.00 a litre ...yeah, thanks Govt. for DESTROYING our way of life. Ya bunch of BLOODY idiots.
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My IDIOT sister and her "know it all" husband are looking at houses in the $500,000.00 range! They are middle class earners who have to have that big house with a 2-car garage & granite counter-tops. Just a couple of total fools. Hubby there thinks there's NO bubble and house prices will always keep going up, up, up. Stupid sis thinks I'm being paranoid. What a couple of common fools!
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So many young people have purchased these absurdly inflated homes at such ridiculous prices.
I do believe that they will be destroyed financially in the coming years. And, for what? A record accumulation of wealth for Real Estate agents and Banks!
But, it's not only the homes. I live in a small town outside of Winnipeg. And, in the new development out here, it's just young family, after young family buying these monstrous brand-new McMansions, with brand-new Car's & pick-up Truck's in all the driveway's. And, brand-new boats, new campers, trailers, motorcycles, dirtbikes, RV's...
WHERE are all of these very average wage earning young families getting ALL of this MONEY? Well, it's debt... Because all of them certainly could not have won the lottery!