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Promise's robots, AI to scale up Mattamy's Alberta home production

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Promise's robots, AI to scale up Mattamy's home production

A partnership between Mattamy Homes’ Alberta division and Promise Robotics will unite the two in scaling up the delivery of housing through Promise’s factory-based manufacturing process.

Modular was hit or miss abroad. How will Canada fare?

Like Sweden, Japan and the U.S. before it, Canada will start experimenting with scaled-up factory-built housing next year — and it has plenty of lessons to learn from countries where the industry has already matured.

Sault builder tackling crisis with modular homes

Combining his professional skills as a homebuilder with an entrepreneurial spirit, Derek Nott launched Great Lakes Modular Homes two years ago with a plan to ease the housing shortage in the Sault Ste. Marie area.

If allowed, will foreign buyers return to Vancouver?

Many B.C. realtors would dearly like to see the federal government remove its foreigh buyer ban – put in place in 2023 and currently not scheduled to expire until 2027 – as one way of pulling the market out of its slump.

Eco Buildings enters Canadian market with first order

U.K.-based Eco Buildings Group PLC has secured its first Canadian order for a two-storey modular loft showhouse to be constructed in Albania and shipped to Toronto, according to a press release issued Wednesday.

Why Toronto housing has yet to reach the bottom

COLUMN: Greater Toronto Area home sales were up 8.5 per cent in September compared with a year earlier. Yet prices remain in retreat, listings continue to accumulate, and the time it takes to sell a property has stretched noticeably.

Toronto’s waterfront condo sellers face a herd mentality

In Toronto’s west end, sellers are adding listings to a brimming pool of inventory for condos on the waterfront. But sellers hurt their own prospects when there are too many listings competing for the attention of discerning buyers.

What will really help the housing crisis, and what won’t

OPINION: What will give more Canadians a chance at a decent, affordable home is unglamorous, thoughtful, incremental work applied by all levels of government to a hundred little broken bits hiding in the shadows.

Ottawa home sales spike in September

Ottawa’s real estate market heated up at the end of summer, with home sales and prices increasing in September. The Ottawa Real Estate Board says 1,089 homes were sold last month, up from 1,047 sold in September 2024.

The housing market is returning — but only for the ready

COLUMN: You won’t suddenly wake up to headlines screaming “It’s back!” You’re not going to feel it until long after it’s already passed. But for the agents who are paying attention, opportunity is already forming.

Rising number of Canadians can't afford mortgage: CMHC

The country’s housing agency projects that a growing number of Canadians will struggle to make payments as they renew their mortgages this year and next. Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. (CMHC) says it is monitoring the situation “very closely.”

Mortgage broker accused of defrauding investors of $101M

Sandford “Sandy” Sussman, the owner of Barrie, Ont.-based Sussman Mortgage Funding Inc., is under investigation after allegedly misappropriating $101 million of investors’ funds and not being able to pay them back.

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