Canadian housing mortgage rates are all over the map. Don’t get trapped in an unnecessarily costly mortgage agreement.
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Mortgage debt taking up a record share of income Mar 17th
Borrowers are now spending roughly $1 out of every $13 of their disposable income on servicing their mortgages. That’s according to Statistics Canada’s fourth-quarter national balance sheet and financial flow accounts. The data shows Canadians are spending 7.66% of their household dispos.... More »
The latest in mortgage news: uninsured posted rates at decade-highs + MORE Mar 11th
Uninsured posted rates from Canada's Big 6 banks have skyrocketed over the past year, according to data from the Bank of Canada..... More »
Some Things Never Change: What We Can Learn From the Past + MORE Mar 5th
I started CanadaMortgageNews.ca in 2009 with one goal: to dispel misinformation. A lot of mortgage “experts” were coming onto the scene at the time with outrageous claims and getting quoted by media outlets. They were all great writers, no doubt. The problem was a lot of what they were saying ju.... More »
Mortgage providers slash rates in wake of bond yield drop + MORE Mar 23rd
It took some time, but mortgage rates are now responding to last week's plunge in bond yields stemming from fears about systemic financial risk in the U.S. and Europe..... More »
The big question on mortgage borrowers’ minds: fixed or variable?
– canadianmortgagetrends.com
With variable mortgage rates potentially at a peak and fixed rates having recently retreated, borrowers are asking themselves the age old mortgage question: should you go fixed or variable?
