Preparing For Your First Mortgage

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Four moves to make when getting ready for your first mortgage. Step 1: Know What You Want Should your mortgage be fixed or variable? Fixed Mortgage Rate: Enables you to “lock in” a predetermined rate for a set amount of time (term). Variable Mortgage Rate: This type of mortgage rate changes monthly according to the mortgage lender’s prime rate. Anyone … Read More

Open or Closed Mortgage?

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Open or Closed? Do you know which option is right for you? Closed mortgages provide lower interest rates than open mortgages. Nonetheless, open mortgages include a smaller amount of fees. What is a Closed Mortgage? Closed mortgages cannot be prepaid, renegotiated or refinanced prior to maturation without paying a penalty. The majority of closed mortgages do provide a little flexibility … Read More

Mortgage Penalties: Just How Much Will it Cost to Break my Mortgage?

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Would now a good time to break your mortgage and refinance? This is a really common concern– when should I break my existing mortgage and refinance for a current best mortgage rate? It’s best to initially weigh out the costs. Breaking your Mortgage A Canadian mortgage rate agreement is a fully committed contract. There is an out clause, however it … Read More

Buyers Doubt Mortgage Rates Will Rise This Year

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Looks like fewer people are buying into the idea that mortgage rates are going to increase in 2013. This according to a studying by CIBC released in mid-March. The study showed that almost half (46 percent) of Canadian homebuyers believe that the near-record low mortgage rates of today are going to stick around for at least another 12 months. That’s … Read More

Is a One-Year Fixed Rate Mortgage Right For You?

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Rates have nowhere to go but up. Or at least, that’s what everyone keeps telling us. Banks, economists, mortgage brokers, even Finance Minister Jim Flaherty is insisting that interest rates will start to climb later this year. And yet, they keep going down. The mortgage establishment continues to drop interest rates, pushing long-term fixed mortgage rates like they’re going out … Read More