by Jamie Cunningham | Dec 20, 2016 | Blog, Homeownership, Lists |
If the great BC power outage of 2015 taught us anything, it was that anything can happen at any time. Final tallies estimate power was lost to over 500,000 homes and businesses across BC, with some outages lasting several days. This had a lot of people taking a good...
by Michelle McCullough | Dec 15, 2016 | Announcements, Blog, Homeownership |
Today the BC government introduced an innovative new program designed to assist first time home buyers with their downpayment. BC is now offering interest-free loans up to $37,500 to first-time homebuyers. The following is from the government website! Every British...
by Michelle McCullough | Dec 15, 2016 | Blog, Economy, Homeownership, Mortgage |
Every year, Mortgage Professionals Canada (Canada’s national mortgage broker association) releases a report called The Annual State of the Residential Mortgage Market in Canada. Prepared by MPC Chief Economist Will Dunning, the report is a collection of surveys that...
by Jamie Cunningham | Dec 7, 2016 | Announcements, Blog, Mortgage |
No big shocker here, in the final rate announcement of 2016, just as every economist in the country predicted, the Bank of Canada announced this morning that it is maintaining its target for the overnight rate at 1/2 per cent. The Bank Rate is correspondingly 3/4 per...