Mortgage Rate Insights

• Mortgage Digest: Easing homeownership costs may be short-lived, RBC says

  Inside: mortgage arrears inch higher, Manulife teams up with M3, Haventree joins CMHC securitization programs and more career updates.

  Published: Tue, 07 Oct 2025 19:10:52 +0000
• Average asking rents drop for 12th straight month to $2,123 in September: report

  Average asking rents in Canada fell 3.2 per cent in September from a year earlier to $2,123, marking the 12th straight month of annual declines.

  Published: Tue, 07 Oct 2025 19:08:00 +0000
• Trump says U.S. and Canada working on formula for tariff deal

  President Donald Trump said he expects the U.S. and Canada can eventually reach a trade deal, but he remained vague about how and when an agreement might be achieved.

  Published: Tue, 07 Oct 2025 19:03:00 +0000
• U.S. consumer borrowing rises at slowest pace in six months

  U.S. consumer borrowing rose in August at the slowest pace in six months, restrained by a pullback in credit-card balances.

  Published: Tue, 07 Oct 2025 19:00:00 +0000
• Bills on high rent, lack of housing lost in rush to wrap N.S. legislature: NDP

  Nova Scotia’s NDP leader is highlighting a pair of her party’s housing bills she says were lost in the government's rush to wrap up the fall sitting of the legislature.

  Published: Tue, 07 Oct 2025 16:05:57 +0000
• Lower gold exports push Canada to near-record trade deficit

  Falling gold exports and surging imports of the safe-haven metal pushed Canada to post its second-largest trade deficit on record, surpassed only by the nadir it reached in April.

  Published: Tue, 07 Oct 2025 14:14:24 +0000
• Equifax says mortgage fraud is down, but falsified documents remain rampant

  Mortgage fraud in Canada may be easing overall, but Equifax Canada’s latest data suggest that what’s left is becoming more sophisticated. 

  Published: Tue, 07 Oct 2025 12:21:09 +0000
• Opinion: Borrowers should think twice before handing their mortgage to a bank adviser

  Every now and then, something happens in this business that really drives home an important lesson, and this time, it’s about how trusting the wrong person with your mortgage file can cost you a great deal.

  Published: Mon, 06 Oct 2025 12:40:27 +0000
• Carney to push budgets to fall in major accounting shift

  Prime Minister Mark Carney plans to change when Canada releases major fiscal documents, moving the country’s federal budget to the fall on an ongoing basis.

  Published: Mon, 06 Oct 2025 12:30:04 +0000
• Residents of fire-ravaged Saskatchewan village face housing squeeze, high prices

  Brittany Holmgren has lived in her hometown her entire life. Denare Beach is where she's enjoyed the outdoors with friends, got her first job and started a family -- but it's also where she lost nearly everything.

  Published: Sun, 05 Oct 2025 16:07:58 +0000