💡A new Amortization Simulator with the market's latest forward rate expectations is downloadable from the mortgage tools. Canadian fixed mortgage rates are so tied to U.S. monetary policy, they should probably ask for a green card. Most borrowers don’t realize how important this cross-border relationship is,

What a week for the real estate market. Another week like this, and your earnest author might have to hang up his keyboard and get a realty license. Just fooling, of course, those lockboxes are too tricky. Nonetheless, before this week, many had been worrying about home prices breaking down,

Watch what they do, not what they say. That's the takeaway from Wednesday's Fed rate cut announcement. (Decision Details) What came out of the Fed Chair's lips was:

🆕NEW: The Amortization Simulator now automatically updates Bank of Canada rate change dates when you change the closing date. Here's a 90-second video of how it works: link. There hasn't been this much buzz before a U.S. policy easing cycle since 1981. Virtually this entire