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The Mortgage Gal
Things to think about
What You Should Think About When Financing Your Home If you’re like most Canadians, your home is probably the most important investment you’ll ever...
New rules hurt bottom line
New Consumer Advocacy Campaign Announced (continued) On April 25, Mortgage Professionals Canada launched a new consumer advocacy campaign including a website...
Mortgage pros fight Ottawa
New Consumer Advocacy Campaign Announced The Mortgage Professionals Canada launched a new consumer advocacy campaign including a website, www.tellyourmp.ca, on...
Should you buy or rent?
Should You Buy a Home or Keep on Renting? Buying a home is one of the biggest emotional and financial decisions you’ll ever make, so prepare yourself to...
Rebuilding bad credit rating
What You Can Do if Your Credit Takes a Beating Sometimes bad things happen to good people. Credit problems can be caused by many events. I have had clients who...
Should you renovate?
Buying a home is one of the largest investments we will make and we often ponder whether to sell our home and upgrade or if we should renovate instead. Buying...
Feds will help buy home
By Chuck Duerden If you are looking to enter the housing market — and if you meet the definition of a first-time buyer plus other conditions — the...
RRSPs for a downpayment
You can use your RRSP for all or part of your down payment, but the rules have changed in recent years. If you think you know them, double check here. What is...
How risky do you feel?
There has been a lot of talk regarding fixed and variable rate mortgages and which one is best for you. Prior to the new regulations introduced by FICOM on Oct....
Hike your credit score
How to Increase Your Credit Score Good credit translates into lower interest rates for the borrower. Here are just a few quick tips that can help put you in a...
CMHC premiums rising
CMHC is raising the cost of mortgage insurance effective March 17. This increase will mean an extra $5 per month on average.
 Here are the new...
Home-owner plan criteria
I have received a number of inquiries about the new B.C. Home Owner Mortgage and Equity Partnership, so thought I would write a follow up to clarify what is...
Down-payment blues
B.C. Home Owner Mortgage and Equity Partnership Program Premier Christy Clark announced on Dec. 15 a new down-payment assistance program to help B.C. residents...
What's your 5-year rate?
The first question I usually get when a potential client calls me is, what is your mortgage rate for five years? It makes me wonder if that is the only thing...
Need a bigger mortgage?
How to qualify for more under the new mortgage rules With the change of mortgage rules requiring borrowers to qualify at the prescribed or posted interest rate...
Help with kid's first home
Sometimes, our children come to us for money to go out with friends, buy clothes, computer stuff or games and and the more they ask, the more we realize that we...
Brokers save you money
5 reasons to use a mortgage broker There are a lot of good reasons to work with a mortgage broker when you’re buying or refinancing a home. To help you...
Home dreams in jeopardy
The federal government has announced new rules to try and cool the heated real-estate markets in Vancouver and Toronto. The change limits the foreign money...
Mortgage methods
How can you pay off your mortgage more quickly? Most homeowners would love nothing more than not to have to put that monthly mortgage cheque in their account....
Housing tax worries market
Economists, realtors, sellers and buyers are all wondering how the Canadian housing market will be affected by the Vancouver property transfer tax for foreign...
