TD Says Canadian Housing Overvalued BY 10%???

Housing market 10% overvalued in Canada amid condo risks, data uncertainty: TD executive

TORONTO — Canada’s housing market is 10% overvalued, with the biggest risks in condominium overbuilding and uncertainty over how many investors are buying, but the risk of a U.S.-style collapse is low, a top executive at Canada’s second largest bank said on Monday.

Lisa Reikman, chief risk officer of Canadian banking at Toronto-Dominion Bank, said a spike in interest rates or unemployment could threaten Canada’s robust housing market, but the risk is fairly low.

Instead, TD Bank, one of the country’s top three mortgage lenders and a growing retail banking presence on the U.S. East Coast, is watching house appreciation and the growing supply of condominiums.

“The high-rise condo market is an area we’re certainly watching closely, and I think all of the other banks, as well and the regulator, (are watching),” Ms. Reikman said in an interview.

“Just by virtue of the fact there is a lot of new construction of high-rise condos, and there are some questions around … how many of those are being purchased by investors as opposed to people (who) are actually living in them as a primary residence,” she told Reuters.

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Housing prices and assets values will collapse by 50 to 75% 
when interest rates spike by 3 to 4%. or more. That's just 
mathematics. What will cause the spike? Oil prices are bound
 to jump to 500 or 1000 a barrel within 5 to ten years, if not sooner. Food  and material costs will rise proportionately, all of which is 
inevitable. That's just physics.

And both are just logic.

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June 6, 2014

Who are these Bankers??? 

Ask George.