{"id":66,"date":"2026-09-30T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lmrealestate.ca\/blog\/?p=66"},"modified":"2026-09-30T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T10:00:00","slug":"canada-buyers-keep-the-upper-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lmrealestate.ca\/blog\/2026\/09\/30\/canada-buyers-keep-the-upper-hand\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada Buyers Keep the Upper Hand"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-zmyer\">\n<div class=\"video-frame-zmyer\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.roomvu.com\/agent\/embed\/ravi-chadha\/buyers-market-crea-bf7d\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><br \/>\n        <\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"video-description-zmyer\">\n<p>A national industry association lowered its 2026 sales outlook, signaling slower activity across Canada even as market conditions continue to differ widely by region.<br \/>\nFalling home values and a wave of listings gave buyers more leverage, lighter competition, and extra time to weigh mortgage and purchase decisions.<br \/>\nAn industry expert said recent sales activity has not produced meaningful value gains, leaving improved buying opportunities for people previously priced out.<br \/>\nThe central bank held rates steady so far in 2026, giving no sign of cuts before year-end and continuing to temper affordability and demand.<br \/>\nThe base case still called for 2027 sales to rebound ~4%, with avg. prices reaching ~$694K if rates stabilize and economic growth firms.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A national industry association lowered its 2026 sales outlook, signaling slower activity across Canada even as market conditions continue to differ widely by region. Falling home values and a wave of listings gave buyers more leverage, lighter competition, and extra time to weigh mortgage and purchase decisions. An industry expert said recent sales activity has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":230,"featured_media":67,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lmrealestate.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lmrealestate.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lmrealestate.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lmrealestate.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/230"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lmrealestate.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lmrealestate.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68,"href":"https:\/\/www.lmrealestate.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions\/68"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lmrealestate.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lmrealestate.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lmrealestate.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lmrealestate.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}