Will Lowered Interest Rates Push Home Prices Back Up?

When the real estate market in Canada's major cities was at its peak, in 2017, one could get a fixed-rate mortgage for five years for 2.2%. This led to buyers out in droves, causing price soaring. In Metro Vancouver, the standard rates reached peaks in spring 2018.

The bank of Canada tried to raise its rate overnight a few times between summers 2017 the end of 2018, causing the variable-rate mortgages to rise. Subsequently, increasing bond yields portrayed that the leases will also increase.

The federal mortgage stress test made it compulsory for all mortgage applicants to succeed at the Bank of Canada's specified rate, or their contracted rate plus 2%. In a year, mortgages went from very cheap to very expensive, due to which later prices fell.

The Two Factors

Two new factors allow seeing that trend overturned equally speedily.

The first factor is the interest rate and the rate at which you have to qualify. With bond yields decreasing, banks are presenting better deals on five year fixed rates, with 2.36%, Considering the falling reduced rates, the Bank of Canada let go of the qualifying rate for the mortgage stress test to 5.19% further giving buyers increased purchasing power parity. The second factor is that home sales in Metro Vancouver and Toronto reached 24% in July, Victoria home sales were up to 13% on a yearly account.

Final Words

Human nature pretty much illustrates that if you wish to buy something and it becomes affordable, people will buy as much as they can. This can be seen in real estate market, where all homes are purchased at the highest price one can afford to maintain the best possible living standard.

If strong home sales were to be seen from August through October this year, the blend of the renewed buzz with inexpensive mortgages would likely converse the recent market slowdown. And if that happened, prices would unavoidably start increasing again.