It's a common held belief that if you've made your mortgage payments on time throughout the entirety of your mortgage term, that your lender is somehow obligated to renew your mortgage. This is simply not the case. [...]

This morning, Finance Minister Bill Morneau announced new housing measures, changes meant to alleviate risk in Canada's current housing market. The measures include: Standardizing lending criteria for high- and low-ratio mortgages, including a mortgage stress [...]

No doubt about it, buying a home is an emotional experience.  It's a game of balancing needs and wants, while trying to be honest with yourself about those very needs and wants. It's hard to [...]

Before reading this you should be warned that the following content is pretty dry... like eating 8 saltine crackers without drinking water dry. If you need to go and get something to drink before proceeding, no worries, [...]

The Bank of Canada today announced that it is maintaining its target for the overnight rate at 1/2 per cent. The Bank Rate is correspondingly 3/4 per cent and the deposit rate is 1/4 per [...]

In an article I recently published called "Is Now a Good Time to Buy?" we identified that interest rates are at all time Canadian lows and as it's never been cheaper to borrow money, now is a good time [...]

If you're getting tired of all the media headlines claiming impending housing market and economic doom and gloom, you're not alone. It seems every time you browse the news another US economist is predicting terrible things for [...]

Thinking of buying a property, but don't know where to start? Well... that's where a mortgage pre-approval comes in. Start here. Just like you wouldn't go into a restaurant without having enough money to buy [...]

Have you ever wondered about how to protect yourself from mortgage fraud? Although the chances of you becoming a victim of mortgage fraud is relatively small, if you do become a victim, it will certainly have a [...]

There is a good chance that if you skimmed the news headlines this last week, you passed right on over a piece called CIBC sells negative-yield bonds for 1st time. No one blames you, because let's face [...]