While the overall Canadian real estate market including activity locally showed renewed strength in the final quarter of 2009, the same cannot be said for our neighbours in the U.S.
The U.S. economy continues to struggle its way towards a recovery and has yet to generate any traction in the all important area of job creation. Many Americans even those with conventional low risk mortgages are under the threat of losing their homes in the next year or two the result of being unemployed. This has now spilled over into the two other segments of the U.S. real estate market as well.
The commercial real estate market is under great threat of collapse. As tenants go bankrupt, out of business or just start to close unprofitable retail locations etc. many investors with significant holdings in commercial real estate are going to incur massive losses. PriceWaterhouseCoopers believe that 2010 will be the worst time in 30 years for commercial property investors in the U.S. to sell their holdings. The question on every one's mind is what impact this will have on the housing market?
In short, this creates the potential for bad news in the luxury residential market. Investors, brokers, builder/developers, tenants and others that are engaged in some aspect of the commercial real estate market are often the buyers and sellers of luxury homes as well. If he commercial real estate market suffers any significant fallout stemming from the ongoing recession being experienced in the U.S. the luxury home market will be sure to take a hit as well.
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