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Bracing for impact: What the current market volatility means for mortgage brokers and borrowers

August 5, 2024 No Comments

It’s amazing what a couple of days can do to the human psyche.

Opinion: How to bridge the housing affordability gap for a generation without a home

August 21, 2023 1 Comment

Over the next few days, the new federal cabinet will gather in P.E.I. for their summer retreat.

Mortgage rate pricing: Canada vs. the U.S.

August 3, 2022 No Comments

Sometimes you just don’t know how good or bad you have it. Take the mortgage business, for example.

Mortgage stress test impacting qualification amounts

How the mortgage stress test is impacting qualification amounts

June 20, 2022 No Comments

As of June 2022, we are currently seeing unnatural discrepancies in the size of mortgage loans borrowers will qualify for, and it’s all because of

Market Warns of Bank of Canada Policy Error

March 17, 2022 No Comments

Canada’s economy has a bad weed growing in it. It’s called inflation, and our central bank hasn’t pulled it fast enough.

Broker with clients worried about rate hikes

Opinion: Rate Hikes Are About to Get Real

February 11, 2022 1 Comment

On Thursday, one of the most-watched interest rates in the world, the U.S. 10-year yield, broke 2% for the first time since summer 2019.

Combatting Mortgage Fraud: Scrap The Status Quo

October 4, 2019 1 Comment

Canada’s conservative nature means that we have a tendency to abide by the status quo, remaining committed to tradition and the processes that have historically

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