Buying A Home

Everyone needs a home-buying support team that includes a real estate agent, mortgage specialist, and real estate lawyer. As you ...

Having the right down payment strategy can save you a lot of money in the long term, and pay back ...

Mortgage pre-approval is essential to knowing what your affordability range is before you make an offer to purchase a home ...

'High ratio mortgage' is a term many first time homebuyers haven't heard before, and often they don't understand how much ...

How Do You Ensure Your Homebuying Budget Covers Everything You'll Need For Closing Day? Buyers quickly learn it's much more ...

Mortgage interest rates rise and fall for many reasons. Some borrowers feel the full impact of these gyrations as they ...

Whether shopping for a new home, have a mortgage renewal coming up, want to refinance or just want to know ...

In this primer for first time homebuyers, we examine how you know you're ready to take the leap, 7 steps ...

Can You Guess The Biggest Mistake First Time Home Buyers Frequently Make? Hint: It’s NOT choosing the wrong paint colour! ...

Here we explain the mortgage stress test - what it means, why it exists, and how it affects you the ...

It's counter-intuitive that high-ratio higher-risk mortgages qualify for lower interest rates, and banks will compete to go lower. We explain ...

What makes a strong mortgage co-signer? Not a great job, nor huge equity with tiny mortgage, nor a fantastic credit ...

Here we explain the importance of protecting against rising interest rates as you approach your mortgage renewal date or while ...

Looking back to the Spring of 2017 we saw a period of uncertainty in the real estate market. A liquidity ...

Just because you are pre-approved does not mean you are good to go and can make a firm offer with ...

Discovery of errors on a credit report at the last minute could have cost homebuyers the home they wanted if ...