As homebuyers move away from big cities and downtown cores, they're driving double-digit prices increases in the suburbs, smaller cities and lower-cost urban neighbourhoods.

The Canadian housing market broke sales and price records in July, continuing to play catch-up after spring shutdowns.

The result came as urban starts of apartments, condos and other types of multiple-unit housing projects rose 13.0 per cent to 154,602 units in June.

Financially-overstretched landlords could be forced to sell, putting downward pressure on housing prices in large cities, economists say.

With virtual open houses and hand sanitizer replacing handshakes, it's already a sea change in the housing market.

Even excluding Vancouver and Toronto, the national average home prices was up 10% in February compared to the same month last year.

A new report shows the baby boomer generation in Calgary hopes to stay in their own homes longer.

But compared to November, sales ticked down 0.9 per cent, ending a streak of monthly gains that had started in March.

Thirty-one per cent of new buyers said they rented for a decade or more before purchasing a house. That's up from 22 per cent in 2018.

The cost of a home in Kingston has been rising steadily for the last several years, according to a Moody's Analytics report — but that's expected to change, one expert says.