MPs are questioning why the Liberal government took liquidity out of the refinance market, and Dan Albas is one of the most vocal.
In the House of Commons ye... Read More...
Finance Minister Bill Morneau is suggesting that no new mortgage rules are on the drawing board.
After meeting with economists on Friday, he told reporters:... Read More...
The "sustained low interest-rate environment" has caused a "significant minority" of Canadians to take on more mortgage debt than they can comfortably manage. T... Read More...
Finance Minister Joe Oliver met with the Canadian Association of Accredited Mortgage Professionals (CAAMP) on Friday. The meeting covered a range of mortgage ho... Read More...
CMHC is safer and better managed than it has been for years. But it nonetheless continues to pare back its mortgage insurance business at the Finance Department... Read More...
CMHC surprised the market last week by eliminating its insured second home and stated income programs. Many believed that the Department of Finance (DoF) had so... Read More...
There’s been so much speculation on whether OSFI’s long-awaited B-21 mortgage insurer guidelines will slow the housing market.
Well, now that we’ve seen the ... Read More...
Since 2008 Finance MinisterJim Flaherty has dealt the mortgage business plenty of pain for promised long-term gain. So when news broke Tuesday that he quit, a w... Read More...
The just-released 2014 budget has both good and not-so-good news for mortgage consumers and the industry at large.
It contains a variety of new mortgage-rela... Read More...
The Department of Finance (DoF) wants to make it easier for credit unions (CUs) to switch from provincial to federal regulation. It issued this release today.
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