💡Also in this edition: • The latest from RateLand • The Value Zone (with new fixed-variable research from Desjardins) • Mortgage Bytes Toronto-based mortgage broker 8Twelve Mortgage Corporation has just scored a lucrative long-term revenue-sharing pact with NerdWallet (Nasdaq: NRDS). San Francisco-based NerdWallet is a global financial information juggernaut. In Canada, it competes

CMHC has massively undercut private default insurers on 30-year insured amortizations. Effective August 1, Canada's housing agency will be charging just 20 bps extra for insured first-time buyers who want a 30-year am. That's dialling all the way back to what CMHC charged in 2012, the

Fourteen years after redefining mortgage rate comparison, Toronto-based Ratehub is getting a fresh CEO. Co-founders Alyssa Furtado and James Laird are reportedly passing the baton to Naga Parvatharaja. His last stint was as GM and Head of Lending at SoFi, a publicly traded U.S.-based "one-stop shop for