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Ron Butler's Brutal Truth About Canada's Broken Housing Market
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- May 23, 2026
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Summary
Canada's housing market does not need to crash dramatically to destroy a generation of wealth. It just needs to stay exactly where it is. Ron Butler, founder of Angry Mortgage and one of Canada's most widely followed mortgage analysts, joins Jim Csek and Iain Burns for a conversation that covers everything the government does not want Canadians to hear about what is actually happening to their homes, their mortgages, their cities, and their country.In this exclusive interview Butler delivers a systematic and unsparing account of how Canada's housing disaster unfolded and where it is headed. Toronto is the epicentre. Condos that sold for $1,300 to $1,600 per square foot in 2021 are clearing at approximately $745 per square foot today. That is a 40 to 50% loss on paper for buyers who never intended to close, assumed they could flip through assignment, and now face developers seizing deposits and litigating them for the difference. Approximately 10,000 to 15,000 people are in what Butler calls true catastrophe, lose everything territory, having refinanced their primary homes to fund deposits on investment properties that are now worth far less than the mortgage and closing costs combined.Then there is Brampton. The number one city in Canada for mortgage delinquency and court action. Butler explains why: during the foreign student boom, residents jammed 18 to 24 students into 3,500 square foot homes, collecting $800 a month per person. That income is now zero. The students are gone. The mortgages remain. The houses are going into default and prices have dropped 40% from March 2022 peaks with no floor in sight.Butler walks through his five-point program of disaster for Canadian real estate: unbridled foreign investment post-2009 that hopped from Vancouver to Toronto when ba…