Mortgages by Carolann Young

Carolann Young || April 12, 2017

Top Cities to buy Canadian Real Estate

Guelph has topped the list as the city with the most attractive real estate for buyers in Canada, according to the 2017MoneySenseWhere to Buy Now ranking. In doing so, it bumps Thunder Bay from the...

Carolann Young || April 10, 2017

In Search of a Stranger to Share a Home Purchase

When a house in their Leslieville neighbourhood sold this year for $1.2-million – nearly double the $695,000 asking price – Toronto residents Andy Stark and his wife, Sylvia Proano (below), found...

Carolann Young || March 28, 2017

Buying homes in the millennial age

Late last Fall, Mortgage Professionals Canada (MPC) polled 2000 Canadians -- 540 were millennials (18-34-year-olds) -- across the country to get their feedback about the mortgage industry, mortgage...

Carolann Young || March 24, 2017

Stressing over the debt-to-income ratio? Don't!

The debt-to-income ratio has hit the headlines again. This time the ratio rose to 167.3 % in the fourth quarter of 2016 compared to 166.8% in the third quarter. That means for every dollar of...