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We have some good news for would-be Canadian home buyers: slightly lower mortgage rates and a dip in home prices have made it easier to purchase a property in nearly half of the nation’s major markets.

This is according to the latest monthly affordability report from Ratehub.ca (Ratehub.ca and MoneySense.ca are both owned by Ratehub Inc.) The study crunches the income required to purchase an average-priced home across Canada, using national real estate data from May and June this year, as well as mortgage and stress test rates.  This makes it possible to track how affordability conditions are evolving on a monthly basis, and how specific markets are impacted by trends in borrowing costs.

The June data reveals that buyers needed less income to qualify for a mortgage in six of 13 markets studied. This reflects a small decline in the average five-year mortgage rate, from 5.49% to 5.47%, and an accompanying mortgage stress test of 7.47%. Mortgage rates lowered somewhat over the course of the month…

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