Which is Canada Most Likely to Experience? You’ve likely heard of analysts using letters of the alphabet to describe the potential pat...

CMHC Makes Policy Changes – Genworth & Canada Guaranty Stay Put It came as a surprise to many mortgage industry insiders when ...

By Mark Kerzner, President TMG The Mortgage Group There was a second emergency reduction in the Overnight rate of 50 basis points on Fr...

Buying a home is a big investment. With so much at stake, it’s important learn what you can about the homebuying process as well as under...

Happy New Year! As we enter this new decade, do you have some spending regret?  You promised to stick to a budget; you promised to scale ...

Buying a house should be an exciting time but it can get pretty stressful, not only for first time home buyers, but for move-up buyers ...

What’s the Smith Maneuver? It’s a wealth-building strategy to create a tax-deductible mortgage. You may have heard, and envied, that mort...

Real estate continues to be a hot commodity in most parts of the country, despite the many changes we’ve gone through over the last few y...

There has been a growing concern about fraud in the industry for a number of years.  According to Equifax, suspected fraudulent mortgage ...

If you read the headlines about the housing industry, you’re bound to think that affordability is out of reach, and if you’re a first-ti...

By Mark Kerzner, President, TMG The Mortgage Group The controversy over the mortgage stress test continues. Banks, economists, mortgag...

Housing affordability has been big talk in the country for a few years now. We’ve had rising interest rates and rising house prices, to a...

There are a lot of questions surrounding affordability in the housing market. There is some uncertainly as to whether the housing market...

The news is full of negatives about housing market slowdowns, mortgage stress tests that shut millennials out of homeownership, low inven...

By Bud Jorgenson, Vice-President, Prairie Region TMG The Mortgage Group I was speaking with a mortgage broker recently who was struggl...

By Mark Kerzner, President TMG The Mortgage Group A colleague asked me recently if I could share a couple of things that I do eac...