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Variable-rate mortgage trigger rate

Variable-rate mortgages are about to trigger payment increases

Peak for fixed mortgage rates

Bond yields plunge. What does it mean for fixed mortgage rates?

Finances getting squeezed

How will the latest rate hike impact variable-rate mortgage holders?

Rocket Mortgage enters Canada

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

Latest News

Housing market affordability

August 13, 2022

The Latest in Mortgage News: BoC’s Affordability Index reaches its worst level since 1991

Lauren van den Berg, MPC CEO

August 10, 2022

Lauren van den Berg named new MPC CEO

Home Capital Q2 earnings

August 9, 2022

Home Capital’s Q2 mortgage volumes up over 40%

Variable-rate mortgage trigger rate

August 8, 2022

Variable-rate mortgages are about to trigger payment increases

Innovation

Four Tips to Speed up Your Underwriting Process

Advertorial

Equitable Bank Acquires Concentra

Equitable Acquires Concentra Bank in $200M Deal

CMLS Launches New HELOC Product

Non-Bank Lender CMLS Launches a HELOC

Fundible launches

Newly Launched Fundible Allows Canadians to Buy Before Selling

Interest Rates

Variable-rate mortgage trigger rate

Variable-rate mortgages are about to trigger payment increases

Peak for fixed mortgage rates

Bond yields plunge. What does it mean for fixed mortgage rates?

Finances getting squeezed

How will the latest rate hike impact variable-rate mortgage holders?

Bank Of Canada Announces Rate Decision

Reaction to the Bank of Canada’s 100-bps shocker

Mortgage Strategies

Rocket Mortgage enters Canada

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

Mortgage stress test impacting qualification amounts

How the mortgage stress test is impacting qualification amounts

The fixed vs. variable mortgage rate decision

Fixed vs. variable: How not to lose this mortgage guessing game.

When home appraisals come up short

What Happens When Appraisal Values Come up Short?

Business Development

Website audits for mortgage brokers

Attention Brokers: How Many of You are Doing Website Audits?

Google's local business search for mortgage brokers

How Mortgage Brokers Can Harness the Power of Local Search

how to market during the coronavirus crisis

How to Keep Marketing When Business Stops Moving

effective mortgage video marketing

Market Your Mortgage Business More Effectively in 2020

Government

New OSFI rules for readvanceable mortgages

OSFI tweaks rules for readvanceable mortgages

CMHC mortgage insurance results

CMHC’s underwriting rule reversal helped drive insurance volumes in Q1

First-time home buyer incentive announcement

EXCLUSIVE: CMHC to introduce limits on First-Time Home Buyer Incentive amid falling home prices (updated)

OSFI Flags Underwriting Issues Related to Income Verification

Bank of Canada

Bank Of Canada Announces Rate Decision

Reaction to the Bank of Canada’s 100-bps shocker

Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem on inflation

Bank of Canada preview: 75-bps rate hike in the cards this week

What rising inflation means for Bank of Canada rate hikes

What the latest inflation data means for the upcoming Bank of Canada rate decision

Tiff Macklem comments on the need to raise interest rates

The economy “needs” higher rates, says BoC’s Macklem

Real Estate

Housing market affordability

The Latest in Mortgage News: BoC’s Affordability Index reaches its worst level since 1991

Canadian home sales in July

Metro home prices continued to fall in July

The Latest in Mortgage News: RBC downgrades its housing market forecast

Canadian home prices fell in June

Home prices fall for the fourth straight month

Earnings

Home Capital Q2 earnings

Home Capital’s Q2 mortgage volumes up over 40%

First National Q2 earnings

Despite slowing volumes, First National expects to remain above pre-pandemic levels

Scotiabank not worried about its floating-rate portfolio

Equitable Bank Q1 earnings

Equitable reports record earnings, sees reverse mortgages soar 262%