When Jeremy Hamelin was about to enter the mortgage industry four years ago, he admits he had some preconceived notions about how he may—or may not—be accepted by colleagues and clients.
CMT has a long record of critiquing government rule changes in the mortgage business. It’s a check and balance on a bureaucratic system that sometimes “forgets”
The Feds clearly wanted to crack the housing market, and they may have finally done it, with a sledgehammer. New Department of Finance (DoF) rules will hit the mortgage
A mortgage broker’s job comes with its share of uncomfortable moments. Telling a client that you can’t provide them with the appraisal they just paid for is one of them.
B.C.’s mortgage broker regulator, FICOM, updated the industry Friday on the contentious new compensation disclosure guideline. (More on that contention) FICOM said it processed 70+
Back in December when the finance department hiked minimum down payments, it said the change would “dampen somewhat the pace of housing activity over the next
When it comes to complaints about banking products, mortgages are second only to credit cards. That’s according to the banking Ombudsman’s (OBSI’s) recently released annual
B.C.’s mortgage regulator confirmed today that it is moving forward with its proposal to require brokers there to publicly disclose compensation details, possibly as early
Despite growing unemployment in oil country, Canada’s largest non-bank lenders capped off 2015 with low arrears and solid mortgage originations. Themes from last quarter’s lender conference calls
