Pine trees can be prickly. How appropriate because that's exactly what kind of competitor Pine Canada Financial Corporation ("Pine") is becoming. You'll notice in the rate table below, Pine has decided to emerge from the forest undergrowth and overtake every national lender in uninsured

The Competition Bureau fed Canadians to the wolves when approving RBC's takeover of HSBC, and Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre wants people to know it. “We have far too much" concentration in mortgage lending, Poilievre told BNN Bloomberg today. "We have these monstrous, government-protected behemoths that dominate

Buried in OSFI's consultation feedback on Monday was this line: "Insured borrowers...are exempt from the re-application of the MQR when switching lenders at renewal." Most mortgage advisors know that this switch exemption applies to grandfathered mortgages—e.g., insured mortgages that closed before November 2016.

Remember Properly, that realty site that made guaranteed offers to home sellers? What a great idea that was...until it wasn't. Earlier this year, Properly ditched its "Sale Assurance" offering, its claim to fame, due to “unprecedented volatility in the Canadian housing market.” And there went