{"id":126,"date":"2026-10-18T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scottmenges.com\/blog\/?p=126"},"modified":"2026-10-18T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T10:00:00","slug":"canada-housing-faces-trade-turmoil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottmenges.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/18\/canada-housing-faces-trade-turmoil\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada Housing Faces Trade Turmoil"},"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\/scott-menges-293825\/trade-bond-housing-remotion-videos-25e2\" 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>Canada&#039;s housing market softened recently, with activity \u2193~7% yearly and national sales \u2193&lt;1% MoM as buyers weighed trade tensions, oil prices, and inflation worries.<br \/>\nRising Canada bond yields added pressure to fixed mortgage rates, yet an industry expert still expected Late-Q3 and Q4 activity to stay busy.<br \/>\nCanada&#039;s central bank recently held its policy rate, while inflation stayed near ~3% for a second month and some economists saw room for 2027 easing.<br \/>\nFor the rest of 2026, one expert expected either no change or one small hike, then possible cuts in 2027 as conditions improve.<br \/>\nThe biggest rebound catalyst remained a US trade deal, while buyers were urged to watch the next 6 to 12 mo and stay ready.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada&#039;s housing market softened recently, with activity \u2193~7% yearly and national sales \u2193&lt;1% MoM as buyers weighed trade tensions, oil prices, and inflation worries. Rising Canada bond yields added pressure to fixed mortgage rates, yet an industry expert still expected Late-Q3 and Q4 activity to stay busy. Canada&#039;s central bank recently held its policy rate, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":360,"featured_media":127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottmenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottmenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottmenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottmenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/360"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottmenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottmenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottmenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions\/128"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottmenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottmenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottmenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottmenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}