March 2024

Commercial real estate primed to rebound in '24

Posted on Mar 25, 2024


The figures are just in for commercial real estate in 2023 and what’s clear is it likely has only one direction to go, and that’s up. Sales totals and dollar volumes in the Lower Mainland were lower than they had been since before the pandemic, and both sales and dollar values were down over 40 per cent compared to 2022.

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Around the world, interest rate decline expected to begin

Posted on Mar 22, 2024

News item: “The world's biggest central banks are on the starting line of reversing a record string of interest rate hikes …”
If you are a regular reader of this website, News From Nexus or any other credible source of information about interest rates, then you know that the way they rise and fall is not unique to Canada. Typically, what happens in...

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Interest rate unchanged by Bank of Canada

Posted on Mar 06, 2024

As was widely predicted, once again the Bank of Canada stayed the course with its overnight interest rate of five per cent. It has been five per cent since last July and, while the Bank is expected to begin lowering rates this year...not yet.
The announcement was accompanied by this explanation:
"Governing Council decided to hold the policy rate at 5...

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