Mortgages in Canada can be a murky subject – one that we hope to shed some light on with a series of highly informational articles.
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TD returns to positive earnings, but mortgage stress grows + MORE Aug 29th
TD Bank returned to profit in the third quarter after a loss in Q2 tied to U.S. regulatory and restructuring charges, even as rising mortgage delinquencies pointed to mounting household strain..... More »
TD Bank sees mortgage volumes rise 7% in Q2, gains market share May 27th
Despite a slow real estate market and high interest rates, TD Bank reported a 7% increase in real estate secured lending (RESL) in the second quarter..... More »
New Rule Targets HELOC Holders Seeking a Second Mortgage + MORE Nov 9th
The word is out on a little-known policy used to qualify anyone with a HELOC who is applying for additional financing. Several of the Big Six banks have already adopted the policy, which requires applicants to prove they can afford the theoretical monthly HELOC payment based on the limit of that HEL.... More »
Q2 2019 Bank Earnings – Mortgage Morsels Jun 26th
Canada’s big banks felt the effects of a sharply slowing economy and cooling housing market in the second quarter. Most reported net income growth in the low-to-mid single digits. Several saw 90+ day delinquencies rise slightly in the quarter, and all of the banks, with the exception of Nation.... More »
Mortgage growth outpaced housing gains in late 2025 + MORE Apr 15th
Home values declined while borrowing increased, leaving financial markets to drive overall wealth growth..... More »
(iStock)If you don’t know them personally, you’ve read about them: the woebegone residents of Vancouver, Toronto, and the surrounding areas of those two cities who bought too much house. Some of you pity them; so unfair their time to buy arrived at the frothiest stages of a property bubble. But I bet just as many of you are disdainful. You ask: Why the hell don’t these people rent?
Hold onto those competing impressions. We will be coming back to them.
The economy just survived a scare. For a few weeks in May, Home Capital Group Inc. looked like it would become the first Canadian financial institution to collapse since the 1990s. But HomeCap still is with us, and the chatter that its troubles herald a housing meltdown has subsided. “From the very beginning, we have seen this as a Home Capital issue as opposed to a broader issue,” Finance Minister Bill Morneau told the Globe and Mail on May 12.
Home Capital, a subprime lender, is too small to cause much trouble on its own. (Its mortgages account for about one per cent of the total market…
Q2 2017 Bank Earnings – Mortgage Morsels
– canadianmortgagetrends.com
Another quarter, another $10.16 billion in net profit for Canada’s Big 6 banks. That’s an 18% increase over last year’s haul. Growing mortgage portfolios were responsible for much of that growth. CIBC in particular saw it’s mortgage book expand 12% from a year ago. Observers looking for signs of weakness in the country’s housing market […]
