💡Also in this edition: • The Latest from RateLand • Value Zone • Mortgage Bytes Google recently pulled the curtain back on its newest brainchild, "AI Overview” (AIO) – previously known as SGE. Despite its much-publicized blunders, AIO and rivals are poised to flip the table on mortgage search marketers. By Gartner'

Starting August 1, first-time buyers eyeing new construction get a new trick to trim their payments: 30-year insured amortizations. But this magic has a price. Bumping the standard 25-year amortization up to 30 years jacks up the default insurance premium by 75 bps—assuming a high-ratio mortgage. On a 5%

"Canada inflation is like cost of goat: very high. But now, it goes down like prices at Kazakhstan market. Very nice!! No need to sell my sister to buy bread! High five!" —Borat Sagdiyev From Kazakhstan to Bay Street, Canadian inflation forecasts just took a turn for the