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CMHC Insurance Now Covers Only 50% of New Mortgages
– ratesupermarket.ca
The federal government’s plan to play a reduced role in Canada’s housing market is clearly starting to take hold.
Driven by a series of measures to tighten mortgage lending criteria and reduce taxpayer exposure, the Canada Mortgage and Housing Agency reports that it’s now insuring a scant 50 per cent of new residential mortgages.
The national housing agency insured 175,169 new home loans last year worth $41.7 billion, representing roughly one out of every two mortgages issued. As planned, the total value of mortgage insurance held fell $14 billion in 2014 to $543 billion.
CMHC expects that this number will shrink by a further $10 billion in 2015 as borrowers repay their loans faster than it sees itself underwriting new ones.
Also read: How Will New Mortgage Amortization and Refinance Rules Affect Me?>
Mortgage Insurance Harder To Come By
With home prices surging in Canada, Ottawa has been working hard to limit CMHC’s credit exposure, capping the agency’s potential book of loans at $600 billion through a series of measures designed to make it more difficult to obtain government-insured mortgages…
Homecare and Health Insurance
– healthquotes.ca/blog/
Many seniors reach a point where they can no longer carry out all of their daily living activities. This is when homecare services become important, since they allow the elderly to continue living in their own home with dignity. But do health insurance plans offer coverage for home care and nursing? Read on to find out!
Term Life vs Whole Life Insurance
– life-insurance-quotes.ca
This article compares and contrasts whole life insurance plans to term life insurance plans. We discuss their pros and cons and also suggest some situations that these life insurance plans are best suited for.
