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Bank of Canada reduces policy rate by 25 basis points
(www.bankofcanada.ca)
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I don't think this will affect housing, yet. Not much, anyway. This rate decision has already been widely anticipated and fully priced in to mortgage rates. The language used by the BoC sounds very similar, too, so I don't think there's any signal to the market that will change expectations significantly.
People on variable-rate mortgages will get a bit of relief, I suppose. But that won't move the needle much on housing prices.
Fully baked in? Bond market dropped quite a bit this week, and .1 just today: