Mortgages by Carolann Young

Carolann Young || July 04, 2018

Put together your Dream Team

Buying a new home and getting a mortgage is an important decision and can be stressful. Consider putting together a team of professionals to help make the entire process easier.Members of your home...

Carolann Young || June 14, 2018

Housing affordability continues to erode

New mortgage rules, rising interest rates, and stress tests have definitely cooled housing market activity by making it more challenging for some to qualify for mortgage. An unwelcome consequence...

Carolann Young || April 26, 2018

Condo investors and the housing market

A recent study titled, "Window Into the World of Condo Investors" by Shaun Hildebrand, senior vice-president of rental research firm Urbanation, and Benjamin Tal, senior economist with CIBC Capital...

Carolann Young || April 11, 2018

The mortgage industry stresses quality over quantity

The Canadian mortgage landscape has seen regulatory change after change combined with continued Government legislative changes since the Fall of 2016. Government changes to mortgage rules have been...