{"id":93,"date":"2026-09-02T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.keepitsimplesold.ca\/blog\/?p=93"},"modified":"2026-09-02T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T14:00:00","slug":"canada-young-canadians-rethink-homeownership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keepitsimplesold.ca\/blog\/?p=93","title":{"rendered":"Canada: Young Canadians Rethink Homeownership"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-zmyer\">\n<div class=\"video-frame-zmyer\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\"\n                src=\"https:\/\/www.roomvu.com\/agent\/embed\/anne-marie-richardson\/younger-canadians-homeownership-remotion-videos-2567\"\n                frameborder=\"0\"\n                allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"\n                allowfullscreen><br \/>\n        <\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"video-description-zmyer\">\n<p>Canada\u2019s affordability strain barely improved into the current second half of 2026, leaving many younger buyers feeling homeownership is slipping further out of reach.<br \/>\nSome younger Canadians have shifted toward &#039;doom spending,&#039; prioritizing travel and experiences over downpayment savings because they doubt they will ever afford a home.<br \/>\nFamily help remains a common path to a downpayment, and brokers say normalizing those conversations can reassure buyers who feel embarrassed asking relatives.<br \/>\nWhile activity stayed sluggish across many Canadian housing markets in 2026, debt servicing often remained the bigger barrier than the downpayment itself.<br \/>\nEntry-level homes moved quickly in one Canadian market, fueling competition, yet brokers still framed ownership as a meaningful long-term goal despite the stretch.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada\u2019s affordability strain barely improved into the current second half of 2026, leaving many younger buyers feeling homeownership is slipping further out of reach. Some younger Canadians have shifted toward &#039;doom spending,&#039; prioritizing travel and experiences over downpayment savings because they doubt they will ever afford a home. Family help remains a common path to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keepitsimplesold.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keepitsimplesold.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keepitsimplesold.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keepitsimplesold.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keepitsimplesold.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.keepitsimplesold.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94,"href":"https:\/\/www.keepitsimplesold.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions\/94"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keepitsimplesold.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keepitsimplesold.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keepitsimplesold.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}