The Canadian Real Estate Homefront Podcast gives you the most up to date news and information on the Canadian Real Estate market. Both Brooke and Cortez are passionate about selling real estate and love the macro economics of the market and how that effects prices, supply, and so much more!
Why Canadian Real Estate Is Facing Its Biggest Test Yet 🏡
Canadian Elections, Pipelines & Toronto’s Tough Housing Market 🏡🇨🇦
Political change, interest rates and a challenging housing market—there’s plenty to unpack in this week’s episode.
Cortez Ranieri discusses Canada’s latest election results, the potential implications for energy infrastructure, and the financial pressures facing property owners and private lenders. He also shares observations from working in the Greater Toronto Area real estate market, where limited showing activity and difficult selling decisions remain part of the conversation.
🎙️ IN THIS EPISODE
🗳️ Election results and housing priorities
A look at Toronto’s mayoral race, municipal results across the GTA and Hamilton, and the BC election. We discuss how the political landscape could influence conversations around development, housing and the economy.
🛢️ Pipelines and Western Canadian energy
What could the BC results mean for pipeline discussions and Canada’s ability to bring energy to international markets?
🏦 Pressure on private mortgage lenders
We explore delinquencies, tax arrears and situations where lenders are accepting less than their original investment to recover capital.
🏙️ A difficult market for GTA condos
Weak new condo sales and resale losses raise difficult questions for owners. Cortez discusses the considerations behind selling, holding or renting a property in the current environment.
🏗️ Housing construction and population growth
Why housing completions and population growth need to be considered together when discussing affordability and long-term demand.
📊 The Bank of Canada and buyer confidence
A reaction to the rate announcement, the inflation picture and what borrowing costs could mean for households already navigating a tight market.
🔑 A firsthand GTA market update
Showing volume, listings moving to the rental market and the decisions buyers and sellers are weighing as they look ahead.
⏱️ EPISODE TIMESTAMPS
0:00 — Introduction and this week’s headlines
0:25 — Toronto mayoral election
2:20 — Mississauga, Hamilton and Brampton results
2:55 — BC election results
4:41 — Pipelines and energy exports
6:15 — Private lending, delinquencies and capital losses
9:10 — GTA new condo sales
11:13 — Resale losses and the condo market
13:02 — Housing supply, population growth and immigration
15:52 — Bank of Canada announcement and inflation
17:18 — GTA market observations and the year ahead
🏡 WORK WITH CORTEZ
Buying, selling or reviewing your real estate options in the GTA? Connect with Cortez for a conversation about your goals, the current market and his tiered commission options.
📅 Free seller consultation:
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📱 Call or text: 289-795-5773
📧 Email: cortezranieri@gmail.com (mailto:cortezranieri@gmail.com)
💻 Website: https://cortezranieri.ca (https://cortezranieri.ca/)
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16 Oct 2026
Is the GTA Market Trading Sideways? (What You Need to Know)
Canadian Real Estate: Buyer Hesitation, Mortgage Rates & What Comes Next 🏡📉
Dozens of showings. No offer. Buyers are looking—but what will get them to commit? 🤔
Cortez Ranieri and Brooke Hicks break down a challenging Canadian real estate market, where sellers are holding firm and buyers are waiting for value. They discuss Toronto housing trends, employment weakness, mortgage rate pressure, and the political backdrop affecting confidence.
They also get practical about running a real estate business: using Homies AI to reduce admin work, managing a growing listing portfolio, introducing commission tiers, and helping sellers tackle everything from decluttering to staging.
Plus, why a home’s smell, cleanliness, and presentation can matter more than sellers realize—and why Cortez expects the GTA market to trade sideways.
🎙️ EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS
👀 What 79 showings without an offer reveal about buyer expectations
🤖 How AI is changing everyday realtor tasks
💼 Different commission packages for different seller needs
🧹 The presentation mistakes buyers notice immediately
📊 How jobs, bond yields, and mortgage rates affect confidence
🇨🇦 Politics, traffic, infrastructure, and the outlook for Toronto
⏱️ TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Homies AI and reducing realtor admin
2:13 Managing 22 listings
4:12 Pricing expectations and buyer hesitation
5:49 Commission tiers and seller services
7:24 Preparing a home for sale
11:13 Toronto housing market update
15:08 Presentation and first impressions
17:12 Canadian employment trends
19:19 Mortgage rates and bond yields
22:15 Canadian politics
25:03 Toronto’s mayoral discussion
27:19 The GTA market outlook
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🤝 OTHER CONTACT INFORMATION
📱 Call or text: 289-795-5773
📧 Email: cortezranieri@gmail.com (mailto:cortezranieri@gmail.com)
💻 Cortez’s website: https://cortezranieri.ca (https://cortezranieri.ca/)
💻 Brooke’s website: https://www.brookehicks.ca (https://www.brookehicks.ca/)
This episode includes a discussion of our Homies AI partnership. Market figures and political commentary reflect the information discussed at the time of recording.
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26 Sept 2026
Canadian Real Estate: Why Sales Are At A 20-Year Low
🏠 Is Canada short on homes, or short on the right homes? Cortez Ranieri and Brooke Hicks open this week’s episode with a contradiction they’re seeing in the market: Brooke has buyers ready to look, but very few quality listings to show them. Meanwhile, national home sales remain unusually slow.
They call it a divided market. A clean, staged home in a strong location with the right asking price can still attract attention and sell quickly. A home that needs work, is poorly presented or is priced above what buyers will pay may sit. Condos face their own challenges, even when the broader market looks balanced on paper.
Cortez shares updates from several recent transactions, including an Oakville condo sale and a purchase at Fifty Old Mill. He also walks through a power-of-sale fourplex in St. Catharines where parking arrangements involving an adjacent medical building have raised questions. Brooke adds her experience with power-of-sale properties and the maintenance and management problems that can emerge during due diligence.
The conversation then turns to the national picture. Cortez and Brooke discuss year-to-date home sales through August reaching their slowest pace since 2003, along with August sales, new listings and Canada’s months of inventory. They consider what those numbers say about the market overall and why the experience can look completely different from one city or property type to the next.
📈 Could interest rates rise again? With bond yields climbing, Cortez and Brooke discuss the renewed possibility of a Bank of Canada rate hike. They look at what higher borrowing costs could mean for confidence, variable-rate borrowers and people approaching mortgage renewal. They also compare Canada’s mortgage system with the U.S., where long-term fixed mortgages can change homeowners’ decisions about selling and moving.
📍 Regional markets tell different stories. They discuss why Regina remains near its peak in the figures covered, while Kitchener-Waterloo is far below its high. Cortez revisits the investor demand, universities, tech growth and pre-construction activity that contributed to Kitchener-Waterloo’s rise. Halifax, Montreal and Ottawa also enter the conversation as examples of markets holding up better than some Ontario cities.
To close, they examine how immigration trends and softer rental demand may flow through to housing demand. They also ask whether Canada is building the kinds of homes prospective buyers need, as much new construction is focused on rentals.
In this episode:
• Why GTA buyers are struggling to find quality listings
• What makes a home sell in a divided market
• Lessons from recent condo and power-of-sale transactions
• National sales, listings and inventory
• Bank of Canada rate-hike risk and rising bond yields
• Why prices vary so much between Canadian cities
• Immigration, rental demand and housing starts
⏱️ Episode guide
00:00 Welcome back
01:11 GTA inventory shortage
02:34 The divided fall market
03:28 Recent condo transactions
04:39 The St. Catharines parking issue
06:09 Power-of-sale complications
07:42 Canada’s home sales hit a 23-year low
08:41 National inventory
10:27 Bank of Canada rate-hike risk
12:36 Canadian and U.S. mortgages
13:48 Portability and mortgage penalties
16:00 Cities near peak pricing
16:59 Kitchener-Waterloo’s decline
18:29 Immigration and housing demand
20:53 Foreign buyer rules
21:13 Housing starts
22:46 Fall market outlook
📲 Connect with Cortez: 289-795-5773 | cortezranieri@gmail.com (mailto:cortezranieri@gmail.com) | cortezranieri.ca
Connect with Brooke: brookehicks.ca
info@brookhicks.ca
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