{"id":64,"date":"2026-11-04T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.umarmukhtar.com\/blog\/?p=64"},"modified":"2026-11-04T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T17:00:00","slug":"canada-floods-hit-home-prices-harder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.umarmukhtar.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/04\/canada-floods-hit-home-prices-harder\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada: Floods Hit Home Prices Harder"},"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\/umar-mukhtar-1\/hurts-home-prices-remotion-videos-27c1\" 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>Canadian findings suggested actual floods carried the bigger market impact: home prices \u2193~8%, homes took longer to sell, and listings \u2193~44% afterward.<br \/>\nBy contrast, floodplain mapping and disclosure without a recent flood event were linked to much smaller price changes, ranging from almost none to \u2193~1%-4%.<br \/>\nAfter a catastrophic flood, average time on market \u2191~20%, and prices could take 1-7 yr to recover, especially for older, lower-priced homes.<br \/>\nIn London, Ontario, a study of homes inside and outside a regulated floodplain found similar selling prices and similar time on market.<br \/>\nWork around the Great Lakes, especially Lake Erie, also showed price declines after erosion or flooding events, reinforcing that events mattered more than flood mapping.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian findings suggested actual floods carried the bigger market impact: home prices \u2193~8%, homes took longer to sell, and listings \u2193~44% afterward. By contrast, floodplain mapping and disclosure without a recent flood event were linked to much smaller price changes, ranging from almost none to \u2193~1%-4%. After a catastrophic flood, average time on market \u2191~20%, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":565,"featured_media":65,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.umarmukhtar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.umarmukhtar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.umarmukhtar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.umarmukhtar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/565"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.umarmukhtar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.umarmukhtar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66,"href":"https:\/\/www.umarmukhtar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions\/66"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.umarmukhtar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.umarmukhtar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.umarmukhtar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.umarmukhtar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}