The Bank of Canada’s monetary policy supporting decades of low interest rates has been a strong tailwind for the Canadian housing market. Coupled with robust demand for all types of housing - driven by demographic trends and ambitious immigration policies, Canadian house prices reached a peak in February 2022. But a sharp reversal of policy in March and a forward trajectory of interest rate hikes has set the stage for a very different housing market than the ones Canadians have become accustomed to.

On this episode of The Real Pulse, Robert Hogue, Assistant Chief Economist, RBC, joins Nurit Altman to help decipher what rising interest rates, construction costs and recessionary fears will mean for the housing market.

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