Five things to watch for in the Canadian business world in the coming week:

Liberal leadership candidate Chrystia Freeland's plan to fix the housing shortage would tie the number of newcomers Canada admits to housing availability.

Mortgage providers nationwide have been gradually lowering their fixed mortgage rates, including five of the country's Big 6 banks.

Real estate sales across British Columbia were up in January compared with the year before, but average prices went down slightly. 

For the past few years, mortgage brokers have been presented with a seemingly non-stop barrage of new mortgage technology.

The first trailers to house displaced locals rolled into Jasper, Alta., this week, about seven months after a third of the town was ravaged by a runaway wildfire.

Members of the Bank of Canada's Governing Council expressed concerned that prolonged trade tensions with the U.S. could permanently reduce Canada's GDP, according to the minutes from its January 29 policy meeting.

U.S. headline inflation rose for the third straight month, raising the likelihood that the next Fed rate cut won't happen until later this year.

After the Bank of Canada’s latest rate reduction 5-year variable mortgage rates are now on par with their fixed-rate counterparts, raising the question: Is now the time to go variable?

Some developers say looming U.S. tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum could be detrimental to the housing sector due to higher costs of key construction materials.