Tips and Insights on Mortgages and Buying Homes

What's the rush?  The financial "why" HSBC did an interesting study in the UK in 2014.  It suggested that if you buy ...
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"Conditional on financing" - do I need this? When you find the condo or house of your dreams, and want ...
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What is an Interest-Saving Mortgage? One of the problems in the mortgage industry is the way mortgages are advertised: usually ...
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Do your own personal stress test There's been a lot of "blah, blah, blah, waaaah!" about the latest rendition of ...
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Purchase - or refinance - before the rules change in January If you’re looking to buy with a down payment ...
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Fixed or variable rate mortgage: is rate the only thing to look at? One of the biggest questions you'll face ...
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Many factors can make it hard to make your mortgage payments Sometimes unforeseen financial circumstances can result in your having ...
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It’s easy to look online for a mortgage rate. But most mortgages vary only slightly on that. So how do ...
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First-time homebuyers survey This past June, Mortgage Professionals Canada published their survey results on the next generation of homebuyers - ...
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On July 12th, for the first time in seven years, the Bank of Canada increased the overnight rate by .25%, ...
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What's a home appraisal? And why might I need one? These days, when you're arranging a new mortgage, it's becoming ...
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Many Toronto home buyers are looking at older properties and find themselves in a common predicament: they’ve found a property ...
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