How a Vancouver Mortgage Broker Can Help You

How a Vancouver Mortgage Broker Can Help You By Brennan ValenzuelaRatehub.ca Buying a house and getting a mortgage can be an overwhelming experience. The process involves hours of research and education before you make the largest financial commitment of your life. Did you know that using a mortgage broker can save you two of your […]

Covered Bonds Explained – Ask a Vancouver Mortgage Broker

Covered Bonds Explained Chances are, unless you work in something related to finance or the housing industry, you’ve probably never heard of “covered bonds”. Though I’m sure you’d be happy to hear that they indirectly help provide homeowners (including yourself) with low mortgage rates. They also help give mortgage borrowers additional options. We will delve […]

Mortgages and loans – harder for the self-employed?

NANCY CARR Special to The Globe and Mai Published Monday, Oct. 01 2012, 12:10 PM EDT As a self-employed website developer who had recently restructured his business, Greg Schmidt knew that refinancing his mortgage wasn’t going to be a piece of cake. “I had a little bit of a line of credit built up from shifting the […]

Relationship Pricing Dies a Slow Death – Contact a Vancouver Mortgage Broker

Relationship Pricing Dies a Slow Death A survey was recently conducted on the more than 400 prime mortgage lenders in Canada. This likely includes your bank or credit union, not your trusted mortgage broker in Vancouver. Of these 400 or so institutions, more than 60 choose not to show their mortgage rates on their websites. Many […]

Be Loyal & Don’t Shop: A Recipe for Overpaying

Be Loyal & Don’t Shop: A Recipe for Overpaying Big banks love mortgage consumers who don’t carefully comparison shop. They also enjoy capitalizing on their “home bank” advantage with existing customers. The article that follows examines recently-released research on these topics. It’s a revealing look at how big lenders benefit significantly from things like mortgage “search costs” […]

Smith Maneuver on Death Row? – find out more from a Vancouver Mortgage Broker

Smith Maneuver on Death Row? Many Canadians utilize leverage within their investing strategies; users of such strategies number into the tens of thousands. Among these techniques we find tactics like the Smith Maneuver. Such leveraged techniques (sometimes involving home equity lines of credit) can magnify gains and allow intelligent investors to pay off their Vancouver home mortgages much […]

What Impact will the New Mortgage Regulations Have? – Ask a Vancouver Mortgage Broker

What Impact will the New Mortgage Regulations Have? Industry insiders (including your trusted mortgage broker in Vancouver) are clamouring to determine the effects of the new mortgage regulations on the value of residential real estate. Is this something we should be seriously concerned about? Or are the effects just another overhyped fear, set to blow […]

Broker Lender Applies for Bank Charter – Need real estate financing – find a Vancouver mortgage broker

Broker Lender Applies for Bank Charter Within a few years, you may have another option when it comes to banking. The fourth-largest broker channel lender by market share, Street Capital, has made public its intention to become a licensed bank. So not only will the company offer real estate financing, but also traditional banking products. […]

Noose Tightens for Potential Homebuyers Standing on Edge – Find a trusted mortgage broker in Vancouver

Noose Tightens for Potential Homebuyers Standing on Edge Anyone who has worked in the real estate business knows how important first time buyers are for residential real estate prices; this includes your trusted mortgage broker in Vancouver. The fact is, new buyers make up a substantial volume of the water on which home prices float. […]

Hurdles Rise for Entry-Level Buyers

Residential real estate relies on first-time buyers, like McDonalds relies on kids loving hamburgers. We need constant demand from young people to keep home prices on the incline. So what happens when it gets harder for fledgling buyers to qualify for the same priced house? With other things equal, prices should drop to meet that new […]

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