Knight Frank Global House Price Index<\/a>, which ranks countries by annual home price changes each quarter.<\/p>\nIn the second quarter, Canadian home prices were up only 0.5 percent compared to the same period last year, according to Knight Frank, a property consultancy headquartered in the UK.<\/p>\n\n
Poland, which saw prices rise 0.4 percent on a year-over-year basis, and Brazil and Switzerland, where prices climbed 0.2 percent in each, were the only markets that placed lower than Canada while posting an increase.<\/p>\n
\u201cOnly four markets registered a decline in annual prices \u2014 Morocco, Italy, Finland and Australia,\u201d writes Kate Everett-Allen, Knight Frank\u2019s head of international residential research, in a report.<\/p>\n
\u201cHowever, with two interest rate cuts this year, new lending stimulus in place and prices bottoming out, we expect Australia to rise up the rankings in the second half of 2019,\u201d Everett-Allen continues.<\/p>\n
Canada\u2019s descent is quite a tumble from where the country stood three years ago, when it stole the third spot in Knight Frank\u2019s Q2 2016 roundup<\/a>.<\/p>\nIn July, the most recent month the Canadian Real Estate Association has data for, home sales across the country increased 12.6 percent annually and 3.5 percent from July.<\/p>\n
The key markets of Toronto and Vancouver both saw sales activity accelerate versus a year ago, leading Robert Hogue, a senior economist for RBC, Canada\u2019s biggest bank, to proclaim, \u201cCanada\u2019s housing market correction is over and the recovery is on.\u201d<\/p>\n
It looks like the Canadian housing market may not be a bottom feeder for long.<\/p>\n
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