The “Big Five” Canadian banks include Royal Bank of Canada, Toronto Dominion Bank (TD Canada Trust), Bank of Nova Scotia, Bank of Montreal and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC). Are there other viable options?
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This mortgage loophole puts us at risk
– moneysense.ca
If the Canadian housing market were to crash it would be catastrophic. At least, that’s the synopsis of the latest Moody’s Investors Service report.
According to their analysis the six big banks would lose nearly $12 billion while CMHC and other mortgage insurers would be on the hook for as much as $6 billion, but only if Canada were to experience a U.S.-style housing crisis where home values were to fall by as much as 35%.
Apparently, the report was a stress-test: a number-crunching exercise to reveal the worst-case scenario; situations that might occur, like a sharp increase in interest rates or massive job layoffs. But one Toronto mortgage broker is far less concerned about less than probable extreme market corrections.
The five-year fixed loophole
Based out of Toronto, Calum Ross works with high net worth clients as a dually licensed wealth advisor (with his MBA) and as an independent mortgage broker. Over the years, Ross has grown more and more concerned with mortgage qualification rules and how loopholes could contribute to over-leveraged homeowners and a potentially catastrophic future fall-out…
According to their analysis the six big banks would lose nearly $12 billion while CMHC and other mortgage insurers would be on the hook for as much as $6 billion, but only if Canada were to experience a U.S.-style housing crisis where home values were to fall by as much as 35%.
Apparently, the report was a stress-test: a number-crunching exercise to reveal the worst-case scenario; situations that might occur, like a sharp increase in interest rates or massive job layoffs. But one Toronto mortgage broker is far less concerned about less than probable extreme market corrections.
The five-year fixed loophole
Based out of Toronto, Calum Ross works with high net worth clients as a dually licensed wealth advisor (with his MBA) and as an independent mortgage broker. Over the years, Ross has grown more and more concerned with mortgage qualification rules and how loopholes could contribute to over-leveraged homeowners and a potentially catastrophic future fall-out…
