Fixed mortgage rates may not keep up with Bank of Canada cuts, warns former TD economist Debt Guru

Fixed mortgage rates may not keep up with Bank of Canada cuts, warns former TD economist

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Drummond, a former TD economist who advised Canadian prime ministers, believes the ultra-low rates of the last decade were an aberration. “Many people, for many years, have said that rock-bottom interest rates are the new normal. I never believed that,” he said at the Mortgage Professionals of Canada national conference last month. “Obviously it was … Read more

BoC official warns against gaming mortgage rules to make housing affordable Debt Guru

BoC official warns against gaming mortgage rules to make housing affordable

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By Nojoud Al Mallées Carolyn Rogers gave a speech Wednesday on the mortgage market to the Economic Club of Canada in Toronto. “We must resist the temptation to try to solve the housing affordability problem by tinkering too much with the mortgage market,” Rogers said in his prepared speech. The central bank official says improving … Read more