Select Page
Money Laundering & Vancouver Real Estate

Money Laundering & Vancouver Real Estate

Money Laundering As of late there has been much media attention focused on the role of foreign buyers, and increasingly on ‘money laundering’. No doubt both foreign buyers and money laundering play a role in our markets but not necessarily a linked role....
Brexit & Your Mortgage

Brexit & Your Mortgage

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″] Short Version Lower rates for longer is the initial prognosis. Referendums: Just a flawed concept.   Long Version While Canada is somewhat insulated from the direct economic consequences of Brexit, so little of CDN...
How have you structured your own mortgage and why?

How have you structured your own mortgage and why?

Ask your Broker or your banker the following Question; How have you structured your own mortgage and why? Aside from discovering that an overwhelming number of mortgage professionals have their own residence set up in either short term fixed (1yr or 2yr) or a variable...
No Bubble To See Here – Part 5 – When Rates Rise

No Bubble To See Here – Part 5 – When Rates Rise

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″]But when rates go back up…   It is not when, it is if. I wrote that correctly. If they go up, as in if they go up in time to matter to me or to you, Mr. & Mrs. Homeowner. Maybe they stay low for another ten or...
No Bubble To See Here – Part 4 – The Amortization Effect

No Bubble To See Here – Part 4 – The Amortization Effect

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″]The Amortization Effect   Each year from 2008 through 2010 the Federal Government reduced the maximum amortization as follows.   Purchases with less than 20% down –from 40–35 years, then 35- 30 and finally 30–25...