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Top Travel Credit Card Sign Up offers for February 2023 + MORE Feb 7th
Here are Rewards Canada’s Top Travel Credit Card Sign Up offers for the month of February 2023! This is not a ‘best’ credit card list like our Top Travel Rewards Credit Card rankings but instead a look at cards that have very good acquisition (welcome/sign up) offers. It must be sa.... More »
Rewards Canada's Top 10 Most Popular Posts for 2021 + MORE Dec 31st
This year on the Rewards Canada blog we managed to publish over 800 posts - a new record since launching this part of the site in 2009. A lot of those posts were very popular with our readers as they saw a lot of traffic but out of all them which 10 came out on top? Read on to find out!Here ar.... More »
Podcast Episode 88 - February 21, 2022 BMO, What are you doing? Part II Feb 22nd
Who would have thought that almost exactly a year after we had a podcast "BMO, What are doing?" we release this episode, BMO, What are you doing? Part II. Yes, BMO is at it again, changing their best travel rewards card and for the most part it is getting worse. The BMO World Elite Mastercard wi.... More »
Top 5 Credit Card Sign Up offers for May + MORE May 3rd
Here are the Rewards Canada Top 5 Credit Card Sign Up offers for the month of May! This is not a 'best' credit card list like our Top Travel Rewards Credit Card rankings but instead a look at cards that have very good acquisition offers. As always when choosing a card you should always take other f.... More »
3 ways many rewards cards give you hotel status Feb 24th
There are three ways rewards credit cards can help you earn hotel status -- by giving you a boost toward status, granting you status with your card or moving you up in the elite ranks when you hit a spending milestone..... More »
Infographic: Credit card love from older millennials
– creditcards.com
Millennials do, too, like credit cards, research shows. In fact, older millennials covet them more than any other age group
Insight into Vancouver’s real estate market
– moneysense.ca
A number of reports were issued Thursday about Vancouver’s red-hot real estate market. Here are some of the key findings from those reports:
— Airbnb says the average host in Vancouver makes an income of about $6,500 annually by occasionally renting out space in their home and uses at least half of what is made to pay for their rent or mortgage, or to cover the cost of household items like groceries.
— The provincial government says just over 3% of sales between June 10 and June 29 involved foreign buyers, mostly from China. Forty-seven of those transactions occurred within the city of Vancouver while 260 involved properties around Metro Vancouver.
— Sotheby’s International Realty Canada says in the first half of this year, there was a 100% increase in the sale of homes that cost more than $4 million in Vancouver, as 439 properties in that price range changed hands.
— Canada’s largest credit union warned that young workers who have long since abandoned hope of owning a home in the Vancouver area are now being priced out of the city’s rental market…
July 8 Update: AIR MILES Expiry in the news again and great Aeroplan award ticket offers for Hong Kong
– RewardsCanada.ca
News, Tips & Tricks The AIR MILES Expiry issue has made the news again! We were interviewed this week about the topic again. Here is our post about it from back in March and you can read this latest CBC News article on the topic right here.Looking good Robb! Yesterday we brought you details of how to get 5,000 free miles with Royal Air Maroc’s Safar Flyer program. That offer potentially got even better as Gary from View from the Wing reminded me how RAM is thinking of moving to Avios (British Airways and Iberia’s currency). If they do move and allow you to transfer to BA or Iberia, well you just got yourself some free Avios with this deal. YYCdeals points out that Aeroplan’s latest Great Deals offers actually has a really good offer out! Right now you can redeem far less miles for economy class flights between Canada and Hong Kong and the good news is these flights incur very little surcharges. Find out more here! Don’t forget to enter our Marriott Rewards contest!! You can enter to win up to 30,000 Marriott Rewards points! Find out all about here…Credit paranoia or credit smart? Which precautions are worth it
– creditcards.com
How to make sure that the desire to protect your credit information doesn’t turn into an obsession
