Author Archives: Danielle Park

The housing unaffordability crisis is not just about current interest rates, which are historically average (4.71% 5-year fixed in Canada and 6.57% 30-year fixed in America). Homebuilders are already offering buy-down rates in the 3 percent range in the US … Continue reading →

If we had a dime for all the times people say silly things, like “You’ll never lose money in real estate” or “high-end properties always hold their value.” Not true, never has been. The current real estate correction cycle is … Continue reading →

Margin debt (people borrowing against their security portfolios) has now topped $1 trillion for the first time in history, +25% over the past year alone. Other, lesser, margin-abuse peaks occurred before major bear markets/recessions (grey bars below) since 1995, courtesy … Continue reading →