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Ask a Mortgage Broker About Deferred Mortgages: Short-term Gain for Long-term Pain
Jonathan Kesselman, an Economics professor at the University of British Columbia, proposes deferred mortgages where a government body would guarantee the mortgages against default for an insurance fee...
Low Mortgage Rates, Other Factors Helping Toronto Condo Market Stay Strong
This weekend we had yet another report to dispel the black clouds that some people claim are hanging over the Toronto mortgage and real estate market.At a recent meeting of the Building Industry and L...
Toronto Home Purchase Prices Fair and Balanced
We’ve all heard that real estate markets are due for a correction and that home purchase prices are set to drop. A new study from the University of British Columbia (UBC) states that housing in most...
Mortgages - Consumer Confidence Slightly Improving
An article in the Globe & Mail today reported that consumer confidence in the US may be slightly improving. These findings are surprising to many economists and forecasters. Slightly falling gas price...
Toronto Real Estate - Time to Get Concerned?
The business section in last Friday’s Toronto Star included an alarming headline that likely struck fear into the hearts of prospective home buyers and current homeowners (and mortgage holders): “...
Canadian Mortgages Rates and Interest Rates Hold Steady For Now
Most industry analysts and those trying to decipher where the Bank of Canada was headed with its main overnight lending rate - the main rate that basically determines the dimensions of the playing fie...
Mortgaes Questions from The Morning Commute
Questions about where Canada's mortgages markets are headed naturally pop to the mind of morning commuters who are are making home purchase or home refinancing decisions when they are confronted with ...
Canadian Mortgages Survey Reports"Interesting" Statistics
There are very interesting statistics "out there" that were released in the CAAMP's (Canadian Association of Accredited Mortgage Professionals) Spring 2008 Survey Report. Two stats stand out particula...
Canadian Mortgages with Extended Amortization a Tool for Our Times
So what's the deal? From perusing Canadian newspapers and magazines, it would seem that mortgages designed with an amortization period longer than 25 years (the former industry standard) may be the m...
Canadian Mortgages and Real Estate: Bull-Market vs. 'Raging Bull-Market"
Insiders in the Canadian mortgages and real estate industries seem non-plussed by the wild swings in markets to the south of us. But if forecasts of the leading analysts are correct, it looks as if C...
Home Equity Loans and Other Canadian Mortgage Products to Finance Your Home Renovations
There are an array of financing vehicles for home renovations, ranging from home equity loans, to secured lines of credits, to mortgage refinancing options, that can help everyone from first-time home...
Canadian Mortgages as Wealth Management Tools: Diversifying Your Home Equity
Homeowners with Canadian mortgages can utilize their homes' equity to create solid, tax-effective investment portfolios. In her Q&A piece in the Mortgages supplement to today's Globe & Mail, R...
Good News for Toronto Mortgages from Bank of Canada Governor
The Bank of Canada came out with good news on Tuesday for consumers in the market for Toronto mortgages, cutting its main rate (the rate the major banks use as a benchmark for pricing their various mo...
