The threat of higher fixed term mortgage rates became a reality this morning as the Royal Bank and TD Canada Trust announced significant hikes. The Laurentain Bank followed suit and it’s believed that other major lenders will quickly fall in line. Effective tomorrow, the posted rate for a five-year closed mortgage climbs by six-tenths of [...]
On February 16, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty announced new rules that affect mortgage lenders and borrowers starting on April 19 of this year. One of the changes requires that buyers qualify for their high-ratio mortgage based on the “five-year fixed rate” even if their mortgage payments are actually calculated on an available lower rate. In [...]
Insisting that Canada is not facing a housing bubble, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty announced a tightening on mortgage lending rules, which he says will “help prevent negative trends from developing.” Effective April 19, 2010 the following changes will take effect. Home buyers must qualify for their mortgage using the five-year fixed mortgage rate, regardless of [...]
Canada’s Finance Minister, Jim Flaherty will announce this morning a change in lending rules that will further limit the amount of cash buyers can borrow to finance a home according to a report on Globe and Mail. Stimulus cash, and historically low interest rates have created an enticing environment for Canadian home buyers who have [...]
For the first time since he initially acknowledged concern over a potential bubble in Canadian housing markets, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty has openly indicated in an interview for CTV’s Question Period that higher down payments and shorter amortization periods are both on the table “if” there is further evidence of a bubble. “If we see [...]
An estimated 30,000 mortgages granted to Canadians with poor credit or insufficient incomes at the height of the Canadian housing boom will not be renewed when they mature over the next three years, according to a story on globeinvestor.com. The sub-prime lenders who granted the loans say that the investors who financed buyers at above [...]
Saskatoon city council, in a special emergency meeting today, granted a final extension to Lake Placid Developments to cough up the $4.55 million for land the developer purchased at River Landing by October 30 2009. The extension is conditional upon the developer paying interest to the City of Saskatoon in the amount of $214,197 by [...]
According to the Saskatoon Star Phoenix, “Saskatoon city council’s executive committee approved a new mortgage support program on Tuesday to help low- and moderate-income people get into the housing market. “Under the program, which will replace the home start affordable housing initiative, people with a household income of $52,000 or less will be given a [...]
A story titled, “Canada’s dirty subprime secret,” appears in today’s Globe and Mail and claims that Canadian leaders are simply wrong about the extent to which the subprime mortgage mess will affect Canadians. According to the Globe’s report, it’s a bigger problem than we might have expected and its effects are already being felt in [...]
In a move intended to “make loans more available and more affordable for Canadians and businesses,” Finance Minister Jim Flaherty announced today that the Canadian government would purchase $25 billion dollars worth of mortgages already insured by Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation. Flahrety insists that not a single Canadian bank is at risk of failing [...]
CNN: The Federal Reserve is expected to overhaul lending rules on Monday in an effort to prevent another mortgage crisis. Good idea Ben! It would be foolhardy to encourage a second mortgage crisis while you’re busy dealing with the first one. I’m always happy to answer your Saskatoon real estate questions. All of my contact [...]
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