（路透）加拿大房贷暨住房公司（CMHC）总裁周三（11月30日）说，加拿大房价飙涨的原因应该是住房短缺，而非外来需求暴增，并提醒国人不要把数十年来房价高涨归咎于外国买家。

(Reuters) – A housing shortage, not a rush of foreign demand, is probably driving up Canadian property prices, the country’s housing agency chief said on Wednesday, as he warned against blaming overseas buyers for the decade-long market boom.

CMHC总裁希道尔周三在大温哥华地区商会演讲时说，政府最新数据显示，外国人持有仅是房价高涨的极小因素。

New government data shows foreign ownership is only a small factor behind the high prices, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp (CMHC) Chief Executive Evan Siddall said in a speech at the Greater Vancouver Chamber of Commerce.

外国人一直被怪罪为造成加国房价上涨的元凶，尤其在加国房价最高的温哥华；当地人认为，中国大陆富裕买家害得加国一般人买不起房子。

Foreigners have been blamed for driving up prices, particularly in Vancouver, Canada’s most expensive housing market, where locals believe wealthy Chinese buyers have made housing unaffordable for ordinary Canadians.

CMHC认为加拿大9个主要城市的房价都被高估。图／报系资料照

希道尔在温哥华告诉听众，这可能只是感觉而非事实。他说：“白人买房我们不会注意。有色人种买房，我们却会注意。这不是好的经济学。”

But that may be a case more of perception than reality, Siddall told an audience in Vancouver. “When a white person buys a house, we don’t notice. When a person of color buys a house, we do. That’s not good economics,” he said.

该住房公司周三在一份报告中指出，温哥华实施外国买家税后，外国人持有的加拿大共有公寓今年已减少，所有房产拥有权中仅一小部分为外国人持有，且大多集中于新建物。

The housing agency said in a report on Wednesday that foreign ownership of Canadian condominiums dropped in 2016 after the introduction of a foreign buyers tax in Vancouver, and remains a fraction of overall ownership, concentrated mostly in newer buildings.

CMHC表示，外国持有的温哥华房产从去年的3.5%降至今年的2.2%；温哥华今年八月对外国买家额外征收15%的（房地产转让）税后，外国买家在该市的需求下降。

The share of foreign ownership fell to 2.2 percent in Vancouver in 2016 from 3.5 percent in 2015, the agency said, suggesting that the August introduction of a 15 percent tax on foreign buyers in that city had dampened demand.

CMHC调查报告显示，温哥华、多伦多由外国居民拥有的共有公寓比率今年继续上升。记者司徒伟群／摄影

外国买家显然未如部分分析师所预测的，转往其他没有实施外国人买房税的城市下手；多伦多的外国人房屋持有率从去年的3.3%降至今年的2.3%。

Buyers did not appear to have shifted to other cities where the tax was not imposed, as some analysts had predicted, with foreign ownership falling to 2.3 percent in Toronto from 3.3 percent a year earlier.