The Bank of Canada just cut the overnight rate by another 0.25%. For the second consecutive month, they’ve lowered the rate. In total, a 0.50% drop in two months. (not enough, but it’s a start) Great news for anyone in a Variable rate mortgage. It means you will be paying 0.50% less on your mortgage. We can expect further cuts this year and next. Read on for more details.
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Some good news on mortgage rates…
Mortgage Brokers are receiving good news this week from many financial institutions. Wholesale fixed mortgage rates are falling. Great news for anyone buying, refinancing or renewing their mortgage in the near future.
The news comes as a reaction to lower than expected inflation rates. We saw 2.7% vs the expected 2.9% reported. And the US economy is finally seeing signs
Continue reading “As expected, rates are beginning to fall”
Everything is playing out as expected. Fixed rates have begun to fall, slowly. But this isn’t unusual or unexpected. If you’ve followed interest rate hikes and cuts, you’ll see a familiar pattern.
Continue reading “Why fixed rates haven’t dropped that much yet”
It’s really not that complicated. If you really want to resolve the housing crisis you just need to do these FIVE things
- 1. Bring back 35 year amortization periods and increase qualifying home prices to $1,250,000 or higher.
- 2.Remove rent control rules.
- 3.Halt new immigration until we can build up enough support services to handle what we have already. *(exception below)
- 4.Cut back on the municipal, provincial gov’t Red Tape to build any type of residential housing and that includes purpose built rental apartment buildings.
- 5.Create a hiring program to entice and incentivize people to get into skilled trades …and bring over people from outside Canada if you have to (this would be my exception to point 2 above)
- Do this and you’ll soon have more housing units available than you could even dream of. It could be done in 3 to 5 years. It’s just not that complicated.
Continue reading “Housing crisis.. Made in Canada”
Hopefully you read Part One of this article where I discuss the Canadian government’s delusional (and incredibly damaging) immigration strategy. With no meaningful plan to absorb 500,000 newcomers per year, we’re looking down the barrel of a number of crises to come: a jobs crisis, a healthcare crisis, an infrastructure crisis, and of course, a housing crisis.
Continue reading “Population Crisis Part 2: The Good News”
