{"id":4,"date":"2026-08-31T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/sanjaykapoor-ca\/2026\/08\/31\/canada-data-week-sharpens-housing-outlook\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T09:00:00","slug":"canada-data-week-sharpens-housing-outlook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sanjaykapoor.ca\/blog\/2026\/08\/31\/canada-data-week-sharpens-housing-outlook\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada Data Week Sharpens Housing Outlook"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-zmyer\">\n<div class=\"video-frame-zmyer\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\"\n                src=\"https:\/\/www.roomvu.com\/agent\/embed\/sanjay-kapoor\/inflation-home-sales-0366\"\n                frameborder=\"0\"\n                allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"\n                allowfullscreen><br \/>\n        <\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"video-description-zmyer\">\n<p>This current week featured Canada inflation, housing, and trade catalysts, with a tariff deadline looming alongside fresh readings on starts, retail sales, and lending.<br \/>\nEarly-Q3 inflation and home sales readings may guide debate over whether the central bank eventually hikes again or keeps its policy rate steady through 2027.<br \/>\nA Real Estate group recently revised its 2026 outlook, now expecting national sales to edge lower this year instead of posting modest growth.<br \/>\nA Mid-Q3 deadline could place nearly US$20B of Canadian exports under ~50% US tariffs, with negotiations continuing but significant issues still unresolved.<br \/>\nHousing starts, retail sales, a loan officer survey, and preliminary business-activity indexes were also due, offering fresh signals on construction, spending, credit, and momentum.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This current week featured Canada inflation, housing, and trade catalysts, with a tariff deadline looming alongside fresh readings on starts, retail sales, and lending. Early-Q3 inflation and home sales readings may guide debate over whether the central bank eventually hikes again or keeps its policy rate steady through 2027. A Real Estate group recently revised [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":24,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sanjaykapoor.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sanjaykapoor.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sanjaykapoor.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sanjaykapoor.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sanjaykapoor.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sanjaykapoor.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sanjaykapoor.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sanjaykapoor.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sanjaykapoor.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}