💡Also in this edition: Mortgage Bytes (after the story) Most of the time, when homebuilding is booming, so is the mortgage business. That's just one reason why our industry is pulling for homebuilders to get their groove back—at least in Canada's biggest provinces. To sniff

"We believe that this period of declining rates could create a period of intense mortgage competition in Canada ... This mortgage competition will likely take place over a 2 to 3-year period, so we could see waves of competition and tactics are likely to evolve and change." That'

If you're looking for answers on where rates could go from here, don't rely on Bay Street economists. Not yet, anyway. Following America's November 5 election, Canada's rate outlook has become an inkblot test; seemingly every expert sees something different. The reason