Contingent on who you question, you will find varying viewpoints on when and how the Canadian housing market will cool down from its recent meteoric climb. For instance, TD Bank economist Pascal Gauthier bluntly stated in an interview with “Globe and Mail” this month that even though housing prices will carry on increasing by 9% over the 2009 figures until the middle of 2011, they will then sharply fall — possibly as low as 2.7 percent. But economist Sal Guatieri of BMO Capital Markets is somewhat hopeful, telling “The Montreal Gazette” that the overvaluation that resulted in the real estate
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