When the bubble bursts
Subtitle: surviving the Canadian real estate crash
By: Hilliard MacBeth
Edition: Second edition.
Publisher: Dundurn Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9781459742031
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Prices; Housing; Real estate investment
Description: "Over the last two decades Canadians have become convinced that real estate is the “safe haven” investment. This widely held belief and obsession with real estate led millions of Canadians to take on massive amounts of debt — tripling their collective financial burden — ensuring that Canada is one of the most indebted nations on the planet.  Drawing on dozens of interviews and even more conversations with individual Canadians and couples, this second edition also tackles the economic conditions and regulatory rules that allowed such a dangerous situation to develop in Canada, formerly a nation of conservative and prudent citizens"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-255) and index.