{"id":2963,"date":"2025-04-15T23:08:38","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T23:08:38","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-03-31T18:23:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T18:23:24","slug":"trade-war-sours-canadian-housing-market-sentiment-and-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbc.com\/en\/economics\/canadian-analysis\/canadian-housing\/monthly-housing-market-update\/trade-war-sours-canadian-housing-market-sentiment-and-recovery\/","title":{"rendered":"Trade war sours Canadian housing market sentiment and recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"wp-block-rbc-section-block  pos-rel\" style=\"border-radius:0px\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-rbc-section-inner-block  section-inner pad-b-hlf\" style=\"border-radius:0x\">\n<p>The trade war is derailing what was shaping up to be a solid recovery in Canada\u2019s housing market. Concerns about the potential economic hit from U.S. tariffs have clearly unsettled buyers in the past two months, many of whom pausing their search for a home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This has resulted in resale activity plummeting 12% nationwide since January, including a 4.8% drop between February and March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The supply of existing homes for sale, meanwhile, is continuing to grow. New listings increased 3% from February to March, and the number of active listings reached a five-year high last month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Buyers are able to extract price concessions from sellers with more options to choose from amid a murkier economic landscape. The national composite MLS Home Price Index fell for a third consecutive time in March, edging -1% lower from February and -2.1% from a year ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-light-grey-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-light-grey-background-color has-background is-style-wide wide\" \/>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"everviz-IpgJ_omd2\" class=\"everviz-IpgJ_omd2\" data-view=\"graph\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-light-grey-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-light-grey-background-color has-background is-style-wide wide\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-ontario-and-b-c-markets-are-slumping\">Ontario and B.C. markets are slumping<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The market pullback is mainly concentrated in southern Ontario and British Columbia where persistent affordability challenges made the recovery especially vulnerable to a loss of confidence. Weakening labour markets and tariffs threatening to strike southern Ontario\u2019s economy hard has significantly soured market sentiment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Home resales are down -21% in Ontario in the past two months and -17% in B.C. The Toronto area (-27%), London (-25%), Fraser Valley (-23%), Vancouver area (-19%), Kitchener-Waterloo (-16%), Victoria (-12%) and Hamilton (-11%) have seen sharp drops in activity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nearly all these markets posted price declines in recent months, generally accelerating in March\u2014ranging between -0.7% in Vancouver and -2.5% in London on a seasonally-adjusted basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Odds are prices in Ontario and B.C. will continue to slump in the near term given supply-demand conditions strongly favour buyers. In fact, we would expect to see larger drops if current imbalances persist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-light-grey-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-light-grey-background-color has-background is-style-wide wide\" \/>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"everviz-fRW51rl3x\" class=\"everviz-fRW51rl3x\" data-view=\"graph\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-light-grey-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-light-grey-background-color has-background is-style-wide wide\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Prairies and regions east of Ontario holding up better<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, markets still look generally busy in other parts of Canada despite some slipping in activity in recent months\u2014reflecting some trade war-induced buyer anxiety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Home resales remain above pre-pandemic levels in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland and Labrador. And, they haven\u2019t fallen much below these levels in Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the most part, supply-demand conditions continue to be tight outside Ontario and B.C., supporting modest price appreciation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The MLS HPI is up above year-ago levels in the Prairies, Quebec and Atlantic Canada\u2014significantly so in several markets such as Edmonton, Winnipeg, Quebec City, Fredericton, Saint John and St. John\u2019s. The pace of increase has slowed materially in Calgary, though, amid a rise in inventory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We expect price gains to broadly moderate as the trade war weighs on local economies and undermines confidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-light-grey-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-light-grey-background-color has-background is-style-wide wide\" \/>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"everviz-JGoHMn6lc\" class=\"everviz-JGoHMn6lc\" data-view=\"graph\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-light-grey-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-light-grey-background-color has-background is-style-wide wide\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">U.S. trade policy poses material risks<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Overall, Canada\u2019s housing market outlook remains highly uncertain. Swings in U.S. trade policy could dramatically alter the picture\u2014in a negative or positive way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Further escalation in the trade war could certainly deepen and broaden the slump. Conversely, any development towards lifting the trade war fog would help shore up confidence and open the door to some of the substantial pent-up demand. 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