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Your Mortgage Renewal Questions Answered Many homeowners dread mortgage renewal time, especially when interest rates are rising as they are today. It means you’ll likely be resetting your mortgage at a higher rate, with higher monthly payments. But as always, you have...

Thinking About Buying A Rental Property? Here's what you need to know. Over the course of the pandemic, the desire for more space and a place to just hunker down surged. For some, that place was a cottage or other type of recreational property. Fast-forward to today...

Is Now A Good Time To Refinance Your Mortgage? The big news in the mortgage world these days has been the steady increase in fixed mortgage rates. Since the start of the year, fixed rates have risen approximately one percentage point or 100 basis points. As a general...

Rate Hikes Are Coming, What Should You Do? The Bank of Canada may not have raised rates at its recent January meeting, but it’s clear that interest rates are headed higher tout suite. Those with a variable-rate mortgage may be understandably on edge these days,...

What to Expect from Canada's Housing Market in 2022 I'd like to wish you a very happy, healthy and prosperous 2022! Not many forecasters anticipated the extent of the housing market's performance in 2021. The year ended with both home sales and average prices up over...