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Is Canada The Next Hot Money Victim?

by John Rubino ◆ May 9, 2017 23 Comments

One of the interesting things about the Great Recession was how Canada’s financial system sailed through it largely unscathed. Its banks were regulated wisely and behaved prudently, its citizens avoided the extreme stupidity of their credit-addicted neighbors to the south, and its government refrained from doubling its debt every eight years. It certainly looked like Canadians were smarter – or at least more emotionally mature – than we were.

But instead of Americans learning from Canada, Canadians appear to have concluded that we had it right after all. In the decade since the global financial system’s last near-death experience, Canadians have started to behave like turbo-charged Americans. A few recent examples:

Canadians Are Buying A Record Number Of New Cars, With A Record Amount Of Financing

(Better Dwelling) – Sales of new motor vehicles across Canada rose to an all-time record for February.

Average Sale Price For New Vehicles Rises
Consumers are purchasing more expensive vehicles too. Over $5 billion was spent on new vehicles for the month, bringing the average to $40,100 – up 3.4% from the same time last year.

Consumers Are Buying “More Car Than They Can Afford”
The uptick in average sale price is due to longer financing terms for buyers. According to the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada (FCAC), Canadians are “increasingly purchasing more car that they can afford,” due to longer financing becoming fashionable. The agency notes that average leases have crept up 2 months, every year since 2010. According to the Bank of Canada (BoC), the average loan was 74 months as of 2015. Longer terms bring down monthly payments, but increases the total cost of the loan.

The Rise Of Non-Prime Lending In The Auto Industry
The right to debt seems to be a topic all Canadians are embracing, and the auto sector is no different. The BoC has estimated that 25% of borrowers are non-prime, which in case you didn’t know is Canadian-English for “sub-prime.” These buyers generally have a FICO score below 670, and face predatory loans with up to 25% interest. This makes it difficult to build positive equity on car loans.

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Over half of Canadians are $200 or less away from not being able to pay bills

(Global News) – More than half of Canadians are living within $200 per month of not being able to pay all their bills or meet their debt obligations, according to a recent Ipsos survey conducted on behalf of accounting firm MNP.

“With such a small amount of wiggle room, any kind of unanticipated hardship, such as a job loss or even a car repair, could send an already struggling family into financial despair,” said Grant Bazian, president of MNP’s personal insolvency practice, which is one of the largest in Canada.

For 10 per cent of Canadians, the margin of error when it comes to household finances is even thinner, at $100 or less.

But those with anything at all left at the end of the month were in better shape than many: A whopping 31 per cent of respondents said they already don’t make enough to meet all their financial obligations.

Many Canadians don’t understand how interest rates work
Another hair-raising finding from the survey: Roughly 60 per cent said they don’t have a firm grasp of how interest rates affect debt repayments.

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Toronto Real Estate Speed-Dating Event Helps Strangers Buy Houses Together

(Huffington Post) – The Toronto real estate scene is nothing short of nuts, as prospective homebuyers with jobs and tens of thousands of dollars in the bank are still getting shut out the red-hot market.

Many buyers are pooling their financial resources to enter the market, and co-ownership is becoming increasingly popular.

Toronto realtor Lesli Gaynor, who has a background in social work, has launched GoCo, a service dedicated to helping people find homes they can afford in Toronto through co-ownership.

“I sort of came to it through watching people be shut out of this market for all kinds of reasons — but mostly financial,” she told HuffPost Canada in an interview.

She primarily works on helping people find others to purchase property they actually want to share and live in, though not necessarily as roommates (i.e., not sharing a bathroom and kitchen).

To connect potential co-homebuyers, Gaynor held a “speed-dating” event called “C-Harmony: Creating Co-operative Connections” at a Toronto pub on Thursday. About two dozen people attended, according to the Toronto Star.

Matt Michaels, who attended the event, told Global News he would love to own a home in the High Park or Roncesvalles areas, and is “open to the idea of owning a home with like-minded people.”

“As a 35 year-old who doesn’t have $400,000 for a down payment right now, it’s increasingly unlikely I would be able to do that on my own,” he said.

Buying with strangers is a feasible idea, but it just “needs to be normalized,” says Gaynor. She pointed to Meridian Credit Union’s recent creation of a friends and family mortgage, and said many lawyers are adapting to write covenants that protect both parties.

“It’s going to catch on, it’s just a matter of normalizing it.”

Some thoughts
Yep, this is both crazy and familiar.

In one sense Canada is just the latest victim of global hot money flows. Rich people in unstable countries like China or Russia are always looking for safe places to stash what they’ve earned or stolen. And their wealth in the aggregate dwarfs the capacity of a Brazil or a Switzerland to absorb it. So when it really starts flowing it distorts the target market in ways that seem like fun for the recipients at first but eventually turn into a nightmare.

Now it’s Canada’s turn, as the fortunes created during China’s post-2008 credit binge flee in anticipation of the inevitable bust. Much of that cash is flowing into Vancouver and Toronto real estate, leading to the insanity chronicled above and much, much more.

Canadian homeowners find themselves becoming rich beyond their wildest dreams and spend accordingly while renters find themselves priced out of the market for shelter, devoting an ever-larger share of their income to rent and sinking deeper into financial insecurity. Those are the people who are one emergency away from bankruptcy.

This divergence between the haves and have-nots begets all kinds of societal ills, from financial speculation to political upheaval. And – so far at least – the targets of hot money flows have yet to figure out a solution. The money pours in, screws everything up, then pours out, causing a crisis.

If anyone deserves better, it’s our likable northern neighbors. But hot money, like the rest of life, is not fair.

Comments

  1. Comment Poster For Cash says

    May 9, 2017 at 8:24 pm

    hayyyy

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  2. Kenneth Hagesten says

    May 9, 2017 at 8:35 pm

    I should say Sweden is also the next hot victim of a property bubble.

    Reply
  3. greener1122 says

    May 9, 2017 at 10:16 pm

    Yes, Chinese money has been flowing into Vancouver and Toronto and local citizens are becoming increasingly homeless as documented in my recent book you endorsed. Americanada.us

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  4. Cecil Henry says

    May 10, 2017 at 3:09 am

    To ignore the immigration invasion as part of this hot money and housing madness is not just insane, its criminal.

    http://www.eurocanadian.ca/2017/05/once-again-obvious-solution-to-vancouver-housing-crisis-goes-unmentioned.html

    Africa for Africans, Asia for Asians, White countries for Everyone IS White Genocide.

    White Genocide is a crime, not a ‘policy option’.

    People facing gross unaffordability, crowding and excess taxation on property and everything else — and buying anyway, and thinking its fine because everyone else is doing it.

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  5. Johnny Canuck says

    May 16, 2017 at 2:43 am

    I watched an interview with a Canadian banker. He said 1/3 of Canadians rent, 1/3 own a house with no mortgage at all, and 1/3 own a house with a mortgage. Those with a mortgage average over 40% equity. Those without much equity have insured mortgages. He didn’t seem very worried. I believe mortgages in default are less than 0.2%, a percentage that has been stable for decades. Mortgages in Canada are full recourse. Its very rare for anyone to hand over the keys to the bank and walk away.

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