Ottawa the top gainer since 2016 in Canada's asymmetric housing markets

If you were lucky enough to own a single-family home in Ottawa over the past couple of years, you would have experienced something very unusual. You would have seen the value of your house jump fastest among the country’s six largest cities.
The average price hike in Ottawa was nearly 15 per cent, giving a new total of $433,500 — up $56,300 as of December, according to benchmark data published last month by the Canadian Real Estate Association.
Remarkably, the absolute gain was doubl