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Synopsis of the attached IMF study:Results reveal that at the peak of the housing boom, house prices were significantly overvalued in the west. However, following the recent steep decline in prices, the overvaluation has decreased significantly; we find that house prices in Alberta and British Columbia remain slightly overvalued as of end-2009Q2 (at around 8 percent according to the model estimation), while at the peak of the housing boom, their overvaluation was estimated at double-digit levels. In contrast, house prices in the eastern provinces of Ontario and Quebec, and the western province of Saskatchewan are now close to equilibrium, even though the latter has also experienced significant overvaluation during the housing boom. Interestingly, the large run-up in house prices in the west in the 2000s, mostly reflects a catch-up from stubbornly undervalued levels following the housing collapse in the early 1990s.
.. far better than US ..
(emphasis mine)
Full report incl. some interesting graphs here: http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2009/wp09235.pdf
.. far better than US ..
(emphasis mine)
Full report incl. some interesting graphs here: http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2009/wp09235.pdf