# Canadian Real Estate Market Report: October 2026 REM Market Call

By Daniel Foch · Homies Research × Real Estate Magazine

Data cut-off: October 27, 2026, before the Bank of Canada's October 28 decision.

https://www.homiesai.com/research/canada-housing-market-call-october-2026

September sales slipped, Ontario led the drop, and fixed mortgage rates jumped before the Bank of Canada did anything. Now oil is over $100, China's market is in a bear market, and traders put the odds of a hike on October 28 at about 74%. Here's what the data says and what to tell clients.

**Canada is two housing markets: Ontario and B.C. are soft, the Prairies and Atlantic Canada are firmer but cooling. The next leg depends on rates, and rates are going the wrong way for Ontario households that are already falling behind.**

1. CREA September: SA sales fell 2.3% and new listings 1.8%. The SNLR is 48.8%, months of inventory 4.9. Balanced on paper, leaning buyer.
2. Prices split on the old fault line. Ontario (−4.3%) and B.C. (−2.4%) fell year over year; Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Newfoundland rose. But sales fell in eight of ten provinces, and inventory is building in Quebec and Manitoba.
3. GTA: sales and new listings both fell. Inventory is lower than last year (actives −11.1% in September) but still nearly triple 2021. Five of six segments were down on price in the first three weeks of October.
4. Credit stress is concentrated in Ontario. Mortgage delinquencies are still rare nationally (0.22% of accounts) but rose 52% in Ontario and 58% in Toronto. Take Ontario out and the national rise in homeowners' other-credit delinquency nearly disappears.
5. Inflation is a fuel problem. CPI 3.1%, gasoline +27.8%, shelter +1.8%, core near 2%. WTI hit $110 on October 19.
6. History says central banks hike into recessions more often than they land softly. Canada did it in 1981 and 1990. Housing paid first through rates, then through jobs.

## Canadian home sales fell in September. Ontario led it.

The slow crawl back stopped. Volume is the problem. Prices are grinding lower.

CREA's seasonally adjusted sales fell 2.3% from August. New listings fell 1.8%. Actual sales were 36,657, down 7.7% from September 2025. The national average price was $666,538, down 1.6% on the year and about 19% below the February 2022 peak. The MLS® Home Price Index slipped 0.4% on the month and is 3.4% lower than a year ago. That's the first time since January the yearly decline got bigger instead of smaller.

CREA's own read: prices took a fresh step down in Ontario, while gains on the Prairies, in Quebec and on the East Coast kept moderating. That second part matters. The firm markets are getting less firm. CREA also said the Bank of Canada is now widely expected to hike before year-end.

The sales-to-new-listings ratio eased to 48.8% (SA) from 49.1%, under the 54.7% long-term average. Months of inventory sat at 4.9. Active listings were a little over 200,000, up 1.8% on the year. On paper that's balance. On the ground it's two countries.

Index average prices to January 2022 and the split is obvious. Hamilton-Burlington sits at 77, Toronto at 81. Calgary is at 126, Edmonton at 121. Ottawa is flat at 100. Same Bank of Canada, opposite outcomes.

Here's the part people miss. Sales fell almost everywhere: eight of ten provinces sold fewer homes than last September, including Alberta (−5.9%). And inventory is building in places people still call firm. Quebec active listings were up 20.7%, Manitoba 19.1%, Nova Scotia 13.4%. Quebec's months of inventory went from 4.8 to 6.3 in a year. Rising stock plus falling sales is how price gains end. Ontario and B.C. actually carry fewer listings than a year ago because sellers are pulling them.

Use the table below to find your board. Average prices move with the mix of homes sold, so pair them with your board's HPI before you quote a price change to a client.

- [September sales slipped, and new listings slipped with them](https://www.homiesai.com/research/canada-housing-market-call-october-2026#chart-crea-sales-listings)
- [September sales are back at 2008–2012 levels](https://www.homiesai.com/research/canada-housing-market-call-october-2026#chart-crea-september-history)
- [Balanced on paper, sliding toward buyers](https://www.homiesai.com/research/canada-housing-market-call-october-2026#chart-crea-snlr)
- [4.9 months of supply: not a buyer's market yet, nowhere near tight](https://www.homiesai.com/research/canada-housing-market-call-october-2026#chart-crea-moi)
- [Two Canadas: same Bank of Canada, opposite outcomes](https://www.homiesai.com/research/canada-housing-market-call-october-2026#chart-two-canadas)
- [Prices split along the old fault line](https://www.homiesai.com/research/canada-housing-market-call-october-2026#chart-province-price)
- [Sales fell almost everywhere](https://www.homiesai.com/research/canada-housing-market-call-october-2026#chart-province-sales)
- [Inventory is building in places people call 'firm'](https://www.homiesai.com/research/canada-housing-market-call-october-2026#chart-province-inventory)

## GTA: fewer sales, fewer listings, lower prices

Inventory is high by GTA standards but lower than last year. Price is still sliding.

TRREB's September numbers: 5,040 sales, down 9.9% from a year ago. 16,500 new listings, down 14.3%. New listings fell faster than sales, so the trend SNLR rose to 37.8% from 34.6%. The composite benchmark was $917,600, down 4.4%.

A correction to my own thesis going in. I expected to say GTA inventory is rising. It isn't, year over year. September actives were 26,131, down 11.1% from September 2025. Months of inventory (TRREB's trend measure) was 4.6, flat on the year. What's true is that inventory is high for the GTA: nearly three times September 2021, and MOI is double 2019. It went up in 2023 and 2024 and stayed up.

October so far points the same way. Robert Marsiglio's corrected briefing, built from Toronto MLS through REALM for October 1 to 26, shows 3,793 sales (−3.2%) and 10,032 new listings (−7.0%). Combined actives were 26,743, down 9.3%. Combined months of inventory 4.96 against 5.53 a year earlier. Toronto condos are the loosest segment at 6.02 months. Toronto freehold is the tightest at 3.75.

Average prices fell in five of six segments. York (−7.6%) and Peel (−7.4%) led. Halton (+3.5%) was the exception. Listings with power-of-sale or mortgage keywords in the seller name came to 365, or 1.36% of actives. PropTx keyword matches rose to 842 from 601 a year earlier. That's a keyword count, not a court file. It lines up with the Equifax data in the next section, which is why I'm watching it.

- [GTA: fewer sales and far fewer new listings than last September](https://www.homiesai.com/research/canada-housing-market-call-october-2026#chart-gta-september)
- [GTA inventory: below last year, still triple 2021](https://www.homiesai.com/research/canada-housing-market-call-october-2026#chart-gta-inventory)
- [Months of inventory: flat on the year, high for the GTA](https://www.homiesai.com/research/canada-housing-market-call-october-2026#chart-gta-moi)
- [GTA benchmark price: still sliding](https://www.homiesai.com/research/canada-housing-market-call-october-2026#chart-gta-prices)
- [October so far: five of six GTA segments down on price](https://www.homiesai.com/research/canada-housing-market-call-october-2026#chart-gta-october-segments)

## Mortgage and credit stress is an Ontario story

Delinquency is still low nationally. It's rising fast where prices ran hottest.

Equifax Canada's Q1 2026 data: 0.22% of mortgage accounts were 90+ days late nationally, still below pre-pandemic. By balance it was 0.28%, up 32% on the year and 5% on the quarter. Ontario mortgage delinquencies rose 52% to 0.36%. B.C. rose 36% to 0.25%. Press coverage of the same Equifax data put Toronto at 0.38% (+58%) and Brampton at 0.64% (+64%). Equifax's Q2 release didn't republish absolute mortgage rates, but it did say Ontario's 90+ missed mortgage payments have risen every quarter for four years.

Other credit tells you who's stretched before the mortgage goes. In Q2, total consumer debt reached $2.68 trillion (+4.18%). National 90+ non-mortgage delinquency eased to 1.76% from 1.79%, still above 1.70% a year earlier. Cards improved to 4.19% and auto to 1.10%. But among mortgage holders, non-mortgage delinquency rose to 0.77% nationally (+12.5%) and 0.86% in Ontario (+27%). Take Ontario out and the national increase is 2.1%.

Bank data points the same direction with a lag. The CBA's 90+ arrears rate was 0.28% in February, double the 0.14% low of mid-2022 and far under the 0.65% peak in early 1992. Consumer insolvency filings totalled 146,135 over the 12 months to August, the most since mid-2010. Most of those are proposals, which is partly why mortgage arrears lag: people restructure everything else to keep the house.

The jobs side is where this could turn. Ontario's unemployment rate was 7.0% in September against 6.5% nationally. Housing usually pays for a rate cycle twice: first through the payment, then through the paycheque.

- [Mortgage delinquency is rising fastest where prices were hottest](https://www.homiesai.com/research/canada-housing-market-call-october-2026#chart-equifax-mortgage-delinquency)
- [Cards and auto cooled. Ontario homeowners didn't.](https://www.homiesai.com/research/canada-housing-market-call-october-2026#chart-equifax-non-mortgage)
- [Bank mortgage arrears: up from the floor, still low](https://www.homiesai.com/research/canada-housing-market-call-october-2026#chart-mortgage-arrears)
- [Consumer insolvencies: running at post-2009 highs](https://www.homiesai.com/research/canada-housing-market-call-october-2026#chart-consumer-insolvencies)
- [Ontario's job market is the weak link](https://www.homiesai.com/research/canada-housing-market-call-october-2026#chart-unemployment-provinces)

## Oil, China and a consumer running on fumes

Inflation is coming from the gas pump. That still lands on housing through rates.

Oil first. WTI at Cushing closed at $107.89 on October 20 after $110.01 on October 19. A year earlier it was about $58. That runs straight into the CPI: September headline inflation was 3.1%, with gasoline up 27.8% and energy up 19.0%. Excluding gasoline, CPI was 2.2%. The Bank's preferred core measures were 1.8% (trim) and 1.9% (median). Shelter rose just 1.8%. Housing isn't driving this inflation. It may still pay for it.

China. The CSI 300 closed 20.2% below its June 22 peak on October 22, which is the conventional bear market line. The Hang Seng was around 23,000, down about 10% this year, and Chinese property investment is still contracting. Canada feels that through commodity prices and risk appetite, not through GTA MLS. Expensive oil with a weak China is an odd combination. Watch metals and the loonie.

The consumer. Don't say spending is dropping, because it isn't. StatCan's advance estimate has September retail sales up 0.7% after a 1.2% gain in August (core +1.1%, volume +1.2%). July fell. The pattern is choppy, not collapsing. RBC's card tracker says core retail spending rose 0.4% on a three-month average in September, down from 0.6% in August, while gasoline spending rose 2.6%. Discretionary goods were flat; discretionary services still grew, just more slowly. The fair line for clients: households are still spending, momentum is easing, and fuel is taxing them.

- [Oil is back above $100](https://www.homiesai.com/research/canada-housing-market-call-october-2026#chart-wti-oil)
- [Fuel, not shelter, is driving inflation now](https://www.homiesai.com/research/canada-housing-market-call-october-2026#chart-cpi-fuel-vs-shelter)
- [China's CSI 300 is in a bear market](https://www.homiesai.com/research/canada-housing-market-call-october-2026#chart-csi300)
- [Still spending. Momentum fading.](https://www.homiesai.com/research/canada-housing-market-call-october-2026#chart-retail-momentum)

## Central banks have hiked into recessions before

Soft landings are the exception. Housing usually pays first through rates, then through jobs.

Canada, 1981. The Bank Rate hit 21.03% in August 1981 and the posted five-year mortgage rate reached 21.75%. The C.D. Howe Institute dates the recession from June 1981 to October 1982. Unemployment went from 7.1% that August to 13.1% in December 1982.

Canada, 1990. The Bank Rate peaked at 14.05% in May 1990. The recession ran from March 1990 to April 1992. Unemployment kept climbing after the recession ended and peaked at 12.1% in November 1992. CBA mortgage arrears peaked at 0.65% that same year.

The U.S. under Volcker. Fed funds averaged 19.1% in June 1981. The U.S. had two recessions back to back (1980, then July 1981 to November 1982) and unemployment hit 10.8%. Inflation broke. So did a lot of households.

How rare are soft landings? Alan Blinder's 2023 review of 11 Fed tightening cycles since 1965 notes the conventional view credits just one clean soft landing, 1994–95. He argues for a few more depending on how strictly you define soft. Either way, betting on the soft landing is betting on the exception.

Today's set-up isn't 1981. Rates are far lower. Debts are far bigger, so smaller moves do more damage. Markets price a hike on October 28 after fixed mortgage rates already jumped, while Ontario delinquencies are rising. I'm not calling a recession. I'm saying the base rate isn't on our side, and the sources don't support a soft-landing story.

- [Canada has hiked into recessions before](https://www.homiesai.com/research/canada-housing-market-call-october-2026#chart-boc-hiking-history)
- [Volcker: the template for hiking through a recession](https://www.homiesai.com/research/canada-housing-market-call-october-2026#chart-volcker)
- [How much unemployment rose when the cycle turned](https://www.homiesai.com/research/canada-housing-market-call-october-2026#chart-recession-unemployment)
- [Where rate shocks have gone before](https://www.homiesai.com/research/canada-housing-market-call-october-2026#chart-mortgage-rate-history)

## Fixed mortgage rates moved before the Bank of Canada did

Prices are lower than last year. The payment is still higher. That's the trap.

The Government of Canada five-year benchmark yield reached a 52-week high of 3.69% on September 23 and was 3.68% on September 28. It was 3.58% on October 26, up from 2.62% a year earlier. Fixed mortgage pricing follows that line. Ratehub's best five-year fixed was 4.34% on October 27, against 3.89% a year earlier, with the overnight rate unchanged. (The earlier deck quoted 3.73%; that was a market quote. The Bank's benchmark is the number used here.)

The Bank held the overnight rate at 2.25% on September 2. As of October 27, rateprobability.com put the odds of a 25 basis point hike on October 28 at 73.6%, with about 109 basis points of hikes priced over 12 months. CREA's own economists said a hike before year-end is widely expected. Variable-rate borrowers haven't felt anything yet. They will if the Bank moves.

- [The five-year yield did the hiking first](https://www.homiesai.com/research/canada-housing-market-call-october-2026#chart-goc5y-daily)
- [Fixed rates moved before the Bank did](https://www.homiesai.com/research/canada-housing-market-call-october-2026#chart-rates-closer)

## Where the capital is going, and what gets built

The loan book is still houses. New public CapEx mostly isn't.

Canada's Big Six held about C$1.558 trillion of residential mortgages at July 31, 2026, 79.1% uninsured, per Axis Intelligence's tally of bank disclosures. OSFI's Superintendent has said commercial lending was about 60% of bank loans in 1982 and about 25% now. The regulator has talked about nudging banks toward business lending as Ottawa pushes infrastructure, energy and defence.

Follow the cheques. The Canada Infrastructure Bank's priority targets put $20 billion into clean energy, $15 billion into trade and transportation, $10 billion into enabling housing supply and $5 billion into digital infrastructure and AI. PwC and ULI's Emerging Trends 2027 Canada chapter, released today, hangs the year on power and compute, national defence and resilience, and demographics and care. Oxford Economics for PwC puts data-centre investment at US$54 billion and defence infrastructure at US$89 billion through 2050. PwC's real assets team pegs Ontario's structural electricity gap at about 68 terawatt-hours by 2040. Housing competes with all of it for trades, steel and megawatts.

That's what I mean by structural de-housing. Mortgages don't disappear. New capital, political urgency and scarce power go somewhere else.

What gets built is changing too. Over the last 12 months, rental starts (120,388) outnumbered condo starts (38,307) by more than three to one nationally. CMHC says Toronto CMA rental apartment starts passed condo starts for the first time since 1994; condo starts fell to 8,289 over four quarters, from 31,445 three years earlier. Urbanation counts 2,696 GTHA condo starts so far this year, 82% below the 10-year average.

Product beats market right now. Valery Research (which I run) matched 1,003 GTA builder floor plans to nearby resale listings: 74.5% of freehold town plans screened below resale asking, against 2% of condo apartment plans. Urbanation says bulk buyers of finished condos paid about $763 a square foot, roughly 40% under what original buyers paid, against resale around $724. Check a new town against resale before you assume precon costs more. Don't make that assumption for condos.

- [What gets built: rental up, condos gone](https://www.homiesai.com/research/canada-housing-market-call-october-2026#chart-starts-tenure)
- [Follow the cheques: housing is an enabling bucket](https://www.homiesai.com/research/canada-housing-market-call-october-2026#chart-cib-envelopes)
- [Precon towns can beat resale. Precon condos mostly can't.](https://www.homiesai.com/research/canada-housing-market-call-october-2026#chart-precon-vs-resale)

## What to tell clients

**Sellers**

- Price off this fall's solds. Last spring's list prices and 2022 comps don't count anymore.
- GTA sellers face fewer competing listings than last year, so listing now can beat waiting for spring. In Quebec, Manitoba and Atlantic Canada inventory is building; don't assume last year's gains carry forward.

**Buyers**

- Get a rate hold now. Fixed rates already moved, and a hike would move variable.
- Lower prices haven't fixed the payment. Run the numbers at today's rate plus a stress buffer.
- Check precon towns against resale. For condos, resale or finished units usually win.

**Agents**

- Take leasing seriously. Purpose-built rental is most of what's getting built.
- Learn small buildings and the financing that goes with them. The tower pipeline is drying up.
- Watch Ontario unemployment and delinquencies. That's the next shoe for listings.

## Fact-check appendix

| Claim | Value | Source | As of | Retrieved | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CREA SA sales, m/m | −2.3% | [CREA release](https://www.crea.ca/media-hub/news/canadian-home-sales-slide-down-slightly-in-august-2/) | Sept 2026 | 2026-10-27 | Verified |
| CREA actual sales and y/y | 36,657 (−7.7%) | [CREA release (y/y); Homies stats feed (units)](https://www.crea.ca/media-hub/news/canadian-home-sales-slide-down-slightly-in-august-2/) | Sept 2026 | 2026-10-27 | Verified |
| CREA SA new listings, m/m | −1.8% | [CREA release](https://www.crea.ca/media-hub/news/canadian-home-sales-slide-down-slightly-in-august-2/) | Sept 2026 | 2026-10-27 | Verified |
| SNLR (SA) / long-term average | 48.8% / 54.7% | [CREA release](https://www.crea.ca/media-hub/news/canadian-home-sales-slide-down-slightly-in-august-2/) | Sept 2026 | 2026-10-27 | Verified |
| Months of inventory (SA) | 4.9 | [CREA release; Homies feed 4.94](https://www.crea.ca/media-hub/news/canadian-home-sales-slide-down-slightly-in-august-2/) | Sept 2026 | 2026-10-27 | Verified |
| Active listings | 204,616 (+1.8% y/y) | [Homies feed (CREA release says 'slightly more than 200,000')](https://www.homiesai.com/stats) | Sept 2026 | 2026-10-27 | Verified |
| MLS® HPI composite | −0.4% m/m, −3.4% y/y | [CREA release](https://www.crea.ca/media-hub/news/canadian-home-sales-slide-down-slightly-in-august-2/) | Sept 2026 | 2026-10-27 | Verified |
| National average price | $666,538 (−1.6% y/y) | [CREA release](https://www.crea.ca/media-hub/news/canadian-home-sales-slide-down-slightly-in-august-2/) | Sept 2026 | 2026-10-27 | Verified |
| CREA expects BoC hike by year-end | Quote confirmed | [CREA release (Shaun Cathcart)](https://www.crea.ca/media-hub/news/canadian-home-sales-slide-down-slightly-in-august-2/) | Oct 16 2026 | 2026-10-27 | Verified |
| Two-Canadas index (Jan 2022 = 100) | H-B 77, Toronto 81, Calgary 126, Edmonton 121 | [Homies feed, actual average prices](https://www.homiesai.com/stats) | Sept 2026 | 2026-10-27 | Verified |
| Provincial price, sales, actives y/y | See charts | [Homies feed](https://www.homiesai.com/stats) | Sept 2026 | 2026-10-27 | Verified |
| TRREB Sept sales / new listings | 5,040 (−9.9%) / 16,500 (−14.3%) | [TRREB Market Watch via Homies feed](https://trreb.ca/market-data/market-watch/) | Sept 2026 | 2026-10-27 | Verified |
| TRREB actives / MOI (trend) | 26,131 (−11.1%) / 4.6 (flat) | [TRREB Market Watch via Homies feed](https://trreb.ca/market-data/market-watch/) | Sept 2026 | 2026-10-27 | Verified |
| TRREB HPI composite | $917,600 (−4.4%) | [TRREB Market Watch via Homies feed](https://trreb.ca/market-data/market-watch/) | Sept 2026 | 2026-10-27 | Verified |
| GTA Oct sales / new listings / actives / MOI | 3,793 / 10,032 / 26,743 (−9.3%) / 4.96 vs 5.53 | Marsiglio briefing (REALM) | Oct 1–26 2026 | 2026-10-27 | Third-party |
| GTA PoS/mortgage keyword listings | 365 (1.36% of actives); PropTx 842 vs 601 | Marsiglio briefing | Oct 26 2026 | 2026-10-27 | Third-party |
| Equifax 90+ mortgage delinquency, Canada | 0.22% accounts; 0.28% balances (+32% y/y) | [Equifax Q1 2026 PDF](https://assets.equifax.com/marketing/canada/assets/q1-2026-consumer-trends-report-en.pdf) | Q1 2026 | 2026-10-27 | Verified |
| Ontario / B.C. mortgage delinquency growth | +52% / +36% | [Equifax Q1 2026 PDF](https://assets.equifax.com/marketing/canada/assets/q1-2026-consumer-trends-report-en.pdf) | Q1 2026 | 2026-10-27 | Verified |
| Ontario 0.36%, B.C. 0.25%, Toronto 0.38% (+58%), Brampton 0.64% (+64%) | As stated | [Global News / insauga (Equifax data)](https://globalnews.ca/news/11864673/mortgage-delinquency-ontario-bc-canada/) | Q1 2026 | 2026-10-27 | Third-party |
| Equifax Q2 debt and non-mortgage delinquency figures | $2.68T; 1.76%; cards 4.19%; auto 1.10%; ON homeowners 0.86% | [Equifax Q2 2026 release](https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/press-releases/2026/08/24/non-mortgage-delinquency-growth-slows-in-second-quarter-but-ontario-homeowners-remain-under-pressure/) | Q2 2026 | 2026-10-27 | Verified |
| CBA mortgage arrears | 0.28% (low 0.14% Jun 2022; peak 0.65% Feb 1992) | [CBA via Bank of Canada (Homies feed)](https://www.homiesai.com/stats/macro?x=arrears-mortgage) | Feb 2026 | 2026-10-27 | Verified |
| Consumer insolvencies, 12 months | 146,135 (highest since mid-2010) | [OSB via Homies feed](https://ised-isde.canada.ca/site/office-superintendent-bankruptcy/en/statistics-and-research) | Aug 2026 | 2026-10-27 | Verified |
| Unemployment Canada / Ontario | 6.5% / 7.0% | [StatCan LFS](https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=1410028701) | Sept 2026 | 2026-10-27 | Verified |
| WTI Cushing | $107.89 (Oct 20); $110.01 (Oct 19); ~$58 a year earlier | [EIA via FRED](https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DCOILWTICO) | Oct 20 2026 | 2026-10-27 | Verified |
| CPI headline / gasoline / ex-gasoline / shelter | 3.1% / +27.8% / 2.2% / 1.8% | [StatCan CPI](https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/261019/dq261019a-eng.htm) | Sept 2026 | 2026-10-27 | Verified |
| CPI-trim / CPI-median | 1.8% / 1.9% | [Bank of Canada](https://www.bankofcanada.ca/rates/price-indexes/cpi/) | Sept 2026 | 2026-10-27 | Verified |
| CSI 300 drawdown | −20.2% close Oct 22 vs 5,059.66 on Jun 22 | [Yahoo Finance daily closes](https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/000300.SS/history/) | Oct 22 2026 | 2026-10-27 | Verified |
| Hang Seng level / YTD | 23,041 / −10.1% | [Yahoo Finance daily closes](https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5EHSI/history/) | Oct 27 2026 | 2026-10-27 | Verified |
| Retail sales Aug / Sept advance | +1.2% (core +1.1%, volume +1.2%) / +0.7% | [StatCan retail trade](https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/261023/dq261023a-eng.htm) | Aug–Sept 2026 | 2026-10-27 | Verified |
| RBC core retail 3mma / gasoline spending / discretionary | +0.4% (from +0.6%) / +2.6% / goods −0.1% 3mma, services +1.0% 3mma | [RBC Consumer Spending Tracker](https://www.rbc.com/en/economics/canadian-analysis/rbc-consumer-spending-tracker/canadians-keep-spending-through-higher-oil-prices-but-momentum-eased-in-september/) | Sept 2026 | 2026-10-27 | Third-party |
| BoC overnight rate | 2.25% (Sept 2 hold) | [Bank of Canada](https://www.bankofcanada.ca/core-functions/monetary-policy/key-interest-rate/) | Oct 27 2026 | 2026-10-27 | Verified |
| Market odds of Oct 28 hike | 73.6% (deck said ~72%) | [rateprobability.com](https://rateprobability.com/boc) | Oct 27 2026, 8 a.m. | 2026-10-27 | Third-party |
| 5-year GoC benchmark yield | 3.69% 52-wk high (Sept 23); 3.68% Sept 28; 3.58% Oct 26 | [Bank of Canada Valet](https://www.bankofcanada.ca/rates/interest-rates/canadian-bonds/) | Oct 26 2026 | 2026-10-27 | Verified |
| Deck's 3.73% five-year yield on Sept 28 | Corrected to 3.68% (Bank benchmark) | [Bank of Canada Valet](https://www.bankofcanada.ca/rates/interest-rates/canadian-bonds/) | Sept 28 2026 | 2026-10-27 | Verified |
| Best 5-year fixed (Ratehub) | 4.34% on Oct 27 2026 vs 3.89% on Oct 2 2025 (deck said 3.79%); Oct 1 2026 figure not verifiable | [Ratehub (live page and Wayback capture)](https://www.ratehub.ca/best-mortgage-rates/5-year/fixed) | Oct 27 2026 | 2026-10-27 | Third-party |
| Bank Rate Aug 1981 / unemployment path | 21.03%; 7.1% (Aug 1981) to 13.1% (Dec 1982) | [StatCan v122530, v2062815](https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=1410028701) | 1981–82 | 2026-10-27 | Verified |
| Bank Rate 1990 / unemployment peak | 14.05% (May 1990); 12.1% (Nov 1992) | [StatCan v122530, v2062815](https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=1410028701) | 1990–92 | 2026-10-27 | Verified |
| Fed funds peak / U.S. unemployment peak | 19.1% (Jun 1981) / 10.8% (Nov–Dec 1982) | [FRED](https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FEDFUNDS) | 1981–82 | 2026-10-27 | Verified |
| Soft landings are rare | Conventional view: one clean soft landing (1994–95) in 11 Fed tightenings since 1965 | [Blinder, JEP 2023 (abstract)](https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.37.1.101) | 1965–2022 | 2026-10-27 | Verified |
| Exact count of soft landings in Blinder's table | Not printed | [Full text not accessible](https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.37.1.101) |  | 2026-10-27 | Gap |
| 5-year posted mortgage rate peak | 21.75% (Aug–Sept 1981) | [StatCan v122521 / BoC](https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=3410014501) | 1981 | 2026-10-27 | Verified |
| Starts by intended market, 12 months | Rental 120,388; condo 38,307 | [CMHC via StatCan](https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=3410015201) | Sept 2026 | 2026-10-27 | Verified |
| Toronto CMA condo starts (4Q) / rental starts; first since 1994 | 8,289 vs 31,445; 12,062 | [CMHC Housing Supply Report](https://www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/professionals/housing-markets-data-and-research/market-reports/housing-market/housing-supply-report) | Q2 2026 | 2026-10-27 | Verified |
| Urbanation GTHA condo starts / bulk pricing | 2,696 YTD (−82% vs 10-yr avg); ~$763/sf, ~40% below original; resale ~$724/sf | [Urbanation Q3 2026](https://www.urbanation.ca/news/gtha-new-condo-sales-double-year-ago-q3) | Q3 2026 | 2026-10-27 | Verified |
| Valery precon vs resale | 1,003 plans (deck said 1,004); 20.6% of plans below resale ask; towns 74.5%; condos 2% | [Valery Research](https://valery.ca/research/gta-preconstruction-vs-resale/) | Oct 18 2026 | 2026-10-27 | Verified |
| Big Six residential mortgages | C$1.558T, 79.1% uninsured | [Axis Intelligence](https://www.axis-intelligence.com/canadian-banking-statistics/) | Jul 31 2026 | 2026-10-27 | Third-party |
| Mortgages ~54% of Big Six lending (Diamond Willow) | Not found |  |  | 2026-10-27 | Gap |
| Commercial lending ~60% (1982) vs ~25% now | As stated | [Globe and Mail (OSFI's Routledge)](https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-regulator-business-lending-by-banks-support-economy) | Sept 3 2025 | 2026-10-27 | Third-party |
| CIB priority targets | $20B / $15B / $10B / $5B | [CIB growth plan](https://cib-bic.ca/en/growth-plan/) | 2026 | 2026-10-27 | Verified |
| PwC/ULI 2027 forces; US$4.7T need; US$54B data centres; US$89B defence (+389%) | As stated | [PwC/ULI Emerging Trends 2027 Canada](https://www.pwc.com/us/en/industries/financial-services/asset-wealth-management/real-estate/emerging-trends-in-real-estate-pwc-uli/canada/canada-real-estate-infrastructure.html) | Oct 27 2026 | 2026-10-27 | Verified |
| Ontario electricity gap ~68 TWh by 2040 | As stated (PwC real assets practice, not Oxford) | [PwC/ULI Emerging Trends 2027 Canada](https://www.pwc.com/us/en/industries/financial-services/asset-wealth-management/real-estate/emerging-trends-in-real-estate-pwc-uli/canada/canada-real-estate-infrastructure.html) | Oct 27 2026 | 2026-10-27 | Verified |
| Federal Major Projects ~$200B in submissions | Not found; dropped from the report |  |  | 2026-10-27 | Gap |
| Military housing | Up to 7,500 units; ~$3.74B advance procurement | [DND](https://www.canada.ca/en/department-national-defence/news/2026/02/government-of-canada-investing-in-historic-military-housing-expansion-to-support-caf-members-and-families.html) | Feb 24 2026 | 2026-10-27 | Verified |

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