The issues plaguing Home Capital dominated the lender's last earnings call, but according to Home's management it appears to finally be turn... Read More...
With housing affordability declining across Canada, one trend is on the rise: parents are increasingly helping their adult children when it ... Read More...
Keynes is alive and well and living in Australia. This conclusion (a paraphrase of the famous quote by economist George Stigler about Adam S... Read More...
Balance sheet lenders. As brokers, we need more of them—especially on the prime side.
Rates like HSBC's 5-year 2.59% refinance offer, whi... Read More...
A home is the largest purchase most people will make in their lives.
That should reinforce the importance of planning ahead, doing your r... Read More...
June brought more declines in sales and prices to the Toronto real estate market, but are we in the midst of a soft landing or the beginning... Read More...
Home Trust needed a big shot in the arm and it got two. Last month Warren Buffett came to the company's rescue with a pivotal investment and... Read More...
It’s official: hundreds of thousands of Canadians will be paying higher interest rates as early as today.
After two years stuck at just 0... Read More...
Exactly one year after OSFI said it would review its B-20 guidelines and scrutinize underwriting standards further, the banking regulator ma... Read More...
The dramatic rise in Canadian house prices has been making headlines almost daily.
And for good reason: prices in and around the country’... Read More...
When Interest Rates Inevitably Rise…
In a new report on “household indebtedness and financial vulnerability,” the Parliamentary Budget Of... Read More...
Recently, the Bank of Canada released its semi-annual Financial Systems Review (PDF document), which identifies some of the major risks that... Read More...
What would brokers do without the Big 6 banks? Think about that.
Banks, directly or indirectly, fund more than three out of four broker d... Read More...
One of the seemingly unintended groups to fall victim to the government’s latest mortgage changes is owners of mobile homes, according to so... Read More...
