{"id":26,"date":"2026-10-26T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.option1group.ca\/blog\/?p=26"},"modified":"2026-10-26T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T09:00:00","slug":"canadian-confidence-rises-housing-optimism-lags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.option1group.ca\/blog\/2026\/10\/26\/canadian-confidence-rises-housing-optimism-lags\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Confidence Rises; Housing Optimism Lags"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-zmyer\">\n<div class=\"video-frame-zmyer\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.roomvu.com\/agent\/embed\/option-one-group\/canadian-consumer-confidence-remotion-videos-352a\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><br \/>\n        <\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"video-description-zmyer\">\n<p>A Canadian confidence index reached ~52 in recent readings, improving from ~50 a month earlier and moving back above the neutral 50 mark.<br \/>\nMost of that improvement came from forward-looking responses, but housing sentiment stayed soft, with only ~29% expecting local home values to rise.<br \/>\nCanadians most often expected stability instead: ~46% said local home prices would hold over the next six months, while ~20% anticipated declines.<br \/>\nPersonal finances looked strained, with ~11% saying they improved over the past year, versus ~38% who said they were worse off financially.<br \/>\nThe latest reading mattered for brokers because it landed as attention centered on the central bank&#039;s October 28 decision and housing expectations remained muted.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Canadian confidence index reached ~52 in recent readings, improving from ~50 a month earlier and moving back above the neutral 50 mark. Most of that improvement came from forward-looking responses, but housing sentiment stayed soft, with only ~29% expecting local home values to rise. Canadians most often expected stability instead: ~46% said local home [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":495,"featured_media":27,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.option1group.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.option1group.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.option1group.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.option1group.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/495"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.option1group.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.option1group.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30,"href":"https:\/\/www.option1group.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions\/30"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.option1group.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.option1group.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.option1group.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.option1group.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}