Mortgage trends

Mortgage trends on Google – Canadian Mortgage Trends According to David Resnick, Head of Financial Services at Google, “mortgages are the fastest growing (search) sector in the financial services by far.” Resnick offered Canadian Mortgage Trends … Read More

VARIABLE MORTGAGE RATES Oh my, how variable mortgage rates have changed. Take a look at our Mortgage Rate History graph below and you will see that the best discounted 5-year variable rate has risen 65 basis … Read More

Since last week’s Monday Mortgage Update, both fixed and variable mortgage rates have remained unchanged in Canada. However, behind this untouched façade, there have been some fluctuations in Government of Canada bond yields, which dictate the … Read More

After an exciting two weeks of significant rate-dropping, mortgage rates seem to have reached a temporary plateau.  All major banks and most financial institutions have kept both fixed and variable mortgage rates unchanged this week. However, … Read More

The mortgage market has seen a significant amount of activity in recent weeks and this past week has been no exception. Mortgage rates have once again decreased across most lenders since our last Mortgage Monday Update. … Read More

The Financial Post broke a story last week regarding National Bank’s new mortgage marketing strategy.  They discovered that Canada’s sixth largest bank was compensating real estate agents for referring mortgage customers. The discovery is troubling for … Read More