The study found immigrant families are far more reliant on real estate than other families for wealth gains
Canada's immigrants are all about real estate, and that means newcomers to the country are carrying more debt than their Canadian-born counterparts.
But the upside is that immigrant families have also accumulated more wealth, according to data released by Statistics Canada on Tuesday.," found that"established" immigrants are slightly wealthier than Canadian-born households, with an average net worth ofStatCan defined"established immigrant family" as one where the major earner is 45 to 64 years old and has been in Canada for at least 20 years.
By comparison, a household with a Canadian-born major earner aged 45 to 64 had an average net worth of $979,000. Net worth is the value of all of a person's assets, including their house, minus debts. Canadian-born households saw their wealth rise by 88.6 per cent between 1999 and 2016, the study found, while established immigrant households saw their wealth grow by 69.6 per cent in that time.Most of the wealth growth came from an increase in house prices and growth in the value of retirement pension plans. But the study found immigrant families are far more reliant on real estate than other families for wealth gains.
For established immigrant families, 69 per cent of wealth growth between 1999 and 2016 came from real estate. For non-immigrant families, only 39 per cent came from real estate.
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