Many Americans are looking to emigrate in Canada and Toronto for retirement. In recent years Americans moving abroad to Canada either for retirement or employment has grown significantly. Canada is convenient enough for most Americans to enjoy flying home to visit or planning travel destinations to and from Ontario apartments to family neighbourhoods back in the United States. Canada has resort value for many international buyers of second home and investment real estate.

Climate and temperature for Canadian homes remain far South of American city temperature averages, which is one reason why most of the Canadian population seems grouped around Ontario homes approaching the United States' northern borders. No longer is Canada merely an attractive option for draft-dodgers and eccentric seniors. Canada has evaded a large part of the Northern American recession and retains vital real estate value. Yet Canada does have its urban challenges in city planning and metropolitan renewal.

English is usually spoken everywhere in Canada and writing materials and legal documents remain thoroughly French and English wherever business is transacted. Canada has its own film industry, music industry, and lexicon of trade interests operating with European partners. International interest in Canada commodities and companies has fluctuated some metropolitan markets in Canada such as Saskatoon, Edmonton, Victoria and Regina.

Settled by national tribes of French, Indian, and British trappers and hunters, Canada has throughout its assorted tundra various provinces which have assumed their own character. Manitoba real estate is more rural, while Winnipeg is a self-contained professional hub which absorbs some metropolitan underclasses. Winnipeg is bear country, and the bears have ample room, since about half of all population of Manitoba lives inside Winnipeg or its environs. A Winnipeg WWI soldier brought a black bear to the London Zoo in 1914, furnishing A.A. Milne with a model for Pooh.

Manitoba depends on agricultural produce and resulting commercial trade to keep its economy vibrant. Unemployment in Canada is lower than the United States, allowing for a more lively resale market for real estate. Current real estate sellers in America are much more motivated to make sale concessions on a home sale to prevent prime borrower foreclosure or loan default. Canadian property owners are more likely to hold onto Canada property for the best sale price. But Canadian real estate investment continues to be a popular international option.

Property in Canada have been teased by American investors now and again, although investment in Canada ventures on the whole and Canadian companies is less strong. But pendulums in Canadian real estate, especially in Toronto homes market, have recently swung back toward the buyer. Expansion in Canada public services and public transit signal increased value in Canadian real estate. Toronto condos have suffered unseasonal drops in real estate unit sales and deal volume. Experts look at Canada trade levels, wage drops and observe that offshore buyers buying solidly have resulted in rendering the Canadian real estate market ripe for stagnation until adjustment takes place.

Realists in Canadian real estate for some time have watched offshore buyers drive the Canada real estate market in circles of rising value and descending unit volume. But areas like Vancouver have suffered double digit multiannual decreases in slowing down and sale prices sharply lower. Higher listings in strong real estate months have presaged a buyer's market at the same time American home buyers may be looking abroad for affordable real estate. Year over year increases in sales that would drive prices up as in the United States has not happened to the same degree, so prices remain relative to value.

Experts advise in waiting to buy in for Canada until key transitions take place and then tapping into pride of ownership to buy or sell Canadian real estate for investment. In contrast to this strategy, few areas in the United States are overcoming recession and building job and consumer spending growth to a level that rivals Canada. A recent slowdown in Canadian real estate has prepared the market for a shifted perspective that welcomes international and American buyers. American and other international buyers may find surprising security and vacation and investment home values buying real estate in Canada.

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