📰Also in this edition: • Canadian / U.S. rates to diverge • Mortgage Bytes So, here's a 'coincidence.' The day after we run a story on potential mortgage changes, JT plays coy when reporters ask him about 30-year insured amortizations: “On mortgages, we will have more to say

With votes on the line and its survival hanging in the balance, the Liberal government needs to start pulling rabbits out of hats. And it doesn't take a Mensa member to figure out who the Liberals must win over. It's the young and restless twenty- and

Billionaire Stephen Smith is like the Magnus Carlsen of the mortgage business—at the top of his game and always thinking multiple moves ahead. Starting from zero (he declared bankruptcy in 1984), Smith capitalized on various industry trends to methodically build a mortgage empire. Today, his holdings include stakes in

💡April's Amortization Simulator update is now live, complete with the market's latest forward rate expectations. See Tools to download. For the first time since 2021, the share of Canadian firms expecting year-ahead inflation over 3% is less than the percentage expecting 2-3%, reports BMO (chart below)