Emerging Trends in Real Estate – 2010 Price Waterhouse Coopers

A brief synopsis of the report:

Canada’s “boring” real estate markets elude direct impacts of the U.S. credit market collapse, but can’t escape fallout from lowered demand and global recession. Conservative banking practices and stricter regulation kept lending in better check and most investors were saved from overleveraging. Only hot-growth Calgary looks overbuilt—other major cities suffer rising vacancies and flattening rents, but sidestep significant distress. Total value losses will be manageable—10 to 20 percent off highs. Markets should enter a slow recovery phase by year-end 2010, but interviewees see better investment opportunities eventually in top U.S. and European cities, which could rebound more sharply after steeper declines. In the meantime, Canadians worry about suffering more economic shocks, if their primary trading partner south of the border can’t get its financial house in order more quickly.

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