
Mortgage Interviews
Interviews with professionals about the mortgage, real estate, and related markets and its impact on the mortgage broker industry.


Top Performers: Kerri Reed
By Vanessa Chris, Special to CMT Few people grow up dreaming of becoming a “professional mentor.” There’s no academic path to pursue or diploma to earn,

Canada’s “New” Largest Brokerage
There’s a race underway in the broker industry, a race for scale. Brokerage firms are uniting to achieve better economies in a shrinking margin environment. And the

Top Performers: Conrad Neufeldt
By Vanessa Chris, Special to CMT “How likely would you be to recommend me to a friend?” That’s the question Conrad Neufeldt asks every one

Top Performers: Mark Goode
By Vanessa Chris, Special to CMT Mark Goode understands first-hand the impact an individual can have on a community. It’s a lesson he couldn’t help

Top Performers: Christine Xu
By Vanessa Chris, Special to CMT Some brokers have crowded trophy cases. Christine Xu is one of them. Xu has appeared on the CMP Top 75

Top Performers: David Larock
By Vanessa Chris, Special to CMT When David Larock left a 10-year lending career to start his own brokering business in 2010, he figured his familiarity

Top Performers: Kelli Pardo
By Vanessa Chris, Special to CMT Some believe there are countless attributes that define a top performer in the mortgage industry, but for Kelli Pardo, only a few really

Insurer CEO on Raising Down Payments
I had a chat with Canada Guaranty CEO Andy Charles today. Like most industry leaders, he’s concerned with maintaining stability in Canada’s high-value housing markets. As a

Top Performers: Collin Bruce
By Vanessa Chris, Special to CMT Collin Bruce attributes his success in the mortgage brokering industry to one simple element: necessity. When he first started