What a slow downsizing wave means for brokers<\/p>\n
More than one third of survey respondents, or 34%,\u00a0believed increased downsizing by older owners would make it easier for younger buyers to enter the market, compared with 26% who said it would make it harder and 29% who expected little impact.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Federal and industry studies pointed to strong demand and limited new construction in seniors\u2019 housing, even as the over\u201165 population swelled.<\/p>\n
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, meanwhile, estimated millions of additional homes would be required nationally over the next decade to restore pre\u2011pandemic affordability levels.<\/p>\n
Younger buyers and the next decade of demand<\/p>\n
REMAX found that 23% of Canadians aged 18 to 34 plan\u00a0to buy their first home in the next 10 years, even as older owners showed limited appetite to move. That mismatch \u2013 rising first\u2011time demand, frozen move\u2011up and downsizing segments \u2013 echoed past reports on how aging\u2011in\u2011place trends and reverse mortgage<\/a> growth are reshaping lender strategies around Canadians 55 and over.<\/p>\n The findings came from a REMAX Canada survey conducted on March 30 to April 1, 2026, among\u00a01,507 adult Canadians in the Angus Reid Forum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What a slow downsizing wave means for brokers More than one third of survey respondents, or 34%,\u00a0believed increased…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,42308,152800,44,173336],"class_list":["post-606493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canada-housing-market","tag-canada-population","tag-news","tag-remax-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}