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INFOGRAPHIC: The Top Mortgage Moments of 2015
– ratesupermarket.ca
Who says monetary policy has to be boring? It’s been a turbulent year – for borrowers, lenders and policy makers. It’s no wonder Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz has been recognized as Canada’s 2015 Business Newsmaker of the Year by The Canadian Press.We’ve highlighted the top mortgage news moments of the year below. Want to read more about each newsmaker? Scroll down for our top headlines by month.
Read More About the Mortgage Moments of 2015
January
Bank of Canada Cuts Interest Rate to 0.75%
Banks Cut Prime to 2.85%
Are Oil Prices Housing’s Kryptonite?
February
How Will Lower Oil Affect the Calgary Housing Market?
CMHC Q1 Report Calls for Housing Market Slowdown
March Rate Cut Looks Less Likely
March
Detached Home Prices Top $1 Million in Toronto
New IMF Warnings for Canada’s Housing Market
BMO Drops Mortgage Rate to 2.79%
April
Atrocious Economic Conditions Expected for Q1
CMHC and Genworth Hike Mortgage Insurance Premiums
Meridian Introduces 1…
Mortgage Debt: Is the Scale Starting to Tip?
– canadianmortgagetrends.com
The “sustained low interest-rate environment” has caused a “significant minority” of Canadians to take on more mortgage debt than they can comfortably manage. That was the conclusion from a recent study by C.D. Howe. Out of all the study’s findings, the one garnering the most headlines was the percentage of homeowners with a mortgage debt-to-disposable income ratio in excess of 500%. That number has rocketed from 3% in 1999 to 11% in 2012 (the latest data available). That’s upwards of half a million households. That led the study authors, Craig Alexander and Paul Jacobson, to suggest that the federal government “may want to consider further policy actions to READ MORE
