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Annual State of the Residential Mortgage Market in Canada 2013

Annual State of the Residential Mortgage Market in Canada 2013

 Annual State of the Residential Mortgage Market in Canada November 2013 Following are highlights from the 2013 CAAMP report. A copy of the full report is available to download at www.caamp.org  For homes purchased in 2013, 82 per cent had fixed rate mortgages....
A Story of Stability; The Boring CDN Housing Market

A Story of Stability; The Boring CDN Housing Market

Short Version; The boring CDN housing market, by the numbers it is clearly stable being primarily composed of borrowers with excellent credit, solid incomes, and reasonable down payments who met stringent qualifying standards in order to enter the market. Long...

‘Cashstop’ for individual investors.

‘Cashstop’ for individual investors.  Not the meaning we like to see associated with ‘cash-stop’. There was a time when banks were the primary go-to lender for the Real Estate Investors Broker, through a series of changes over the past couple...
The market we can all predict.

The market we can all predict.

The market we can all predict. 9.9 days out of 10; I believe that world conditions trend in a positive direction.  We live in a better world today than we did yesterday.  I am a somewhat Rational Optimist. As such this recent headline seems to me a bit odd;...
The market we can all predict.

Interest rate activity, a deeper look.

Fixed interest rates are on the move, no doubt about it. There are many predictions about whether or not this is a small fluctuation in the market, or the beginning of a long term trend. Personally I always liked the phrase ‘Follow the evidence’.  Mind you...