When interest rates go down, it encourage house buyers to choose fixed rate mortgages. If you read previous articles about fixed or varying rate mortgage loan, you already know that varying rates remains a winning strategy for the foreseeable future.
Moreover, according to economists, varying rate will be the best option over the next few years. [...]
In the previous articles, we saw that weekly mortgage repayment could save you more money than if you pay every month. Why? The explanation is simple and doesn’t change anything in the amount you have to pay.
Given that there is less time between each payment (every week instead of every month), a portion of the [...]
In the previous article, we explain how works open home mortgages in relation with closed ones. We also discussed interest rates of that kind of mortgages. In this article, we will see examples to illustrate the difference.
1. Imagine you decide to take an open home mortgage of $100,000 and you think you will be able [...]
The only home mortgage that is repayable at any time without penalty is the open mortgage. And most of these have variable interest rates.
Of course, some open mortgage have a fixed interest rate for 5 years, but this rate is very much higher. So, it might be not useful for you to get fixed rates.
And [...]
When it is time to negotiate your home mortgage loan, two kinds of people have opposite need: the borrower (you) and the bank… As you want to pay as less interest as possible, banks wants to make profit lending you a home mortgage loan.
The mortgage broker plays a special role in this relationship. He is [...]
To choose between home mortgage repayment or RRSP contribution is not always obvious… Unless you have debt problems, you must choice first to contribute to your RRSP.
Then, you should choose to reduce your debts. But you may consider the choice to repay your home and other debt or to contribute to your RRSP in relation [...]
If you ask a lender about the ability of people to repay their home mortgage loan, he could tell you that, before to loan $200,000 to a person, he want to know if that person could pay a debt as low as $2000…
This show the importance of your credit history when you want to have [...]
If you shop for your new sport car, there is a tendency that you will finance car with the car dealer itself. Indeed, sales agents in showrooms can offer you several deals and you probably choose such loans without shopping.
Not a lot of people can purchase their new sport car without the help of a [...]
To get the best home mortgage rates, banks have to consider general characteristics of ideal borrower. To determine the financial condition of credit you will be able to get, banks will required to assess your risk level.
If your risk assessment is low, banks will be more willing to offer you their best interest rates. If [...]
Would you want to learn something to save more than getting the best interest rates? Almost everyone wants to know where to get the best rates. But there is something more important! Here are three important facts to know how you can beat this strategy.
First fact: Understand the impact of better interest rates on your [...]
Figures and studies often show that many consumers do not check interest rates and accept it without negotiating the terms their bank offers. Banks are aware of this situation and, hoping to get more revenue, hide the facts that they offer higher mortgage rates instead of the lowest one they can offer.
Banks’ policy and the [...]
Before to get a mortgage, you are better to know what it is! It is a legal term which is the official pledge of a real property by the holder (yourself) to obtain financial facilities from his creditor.
In simplest terms, it means that you guarantee to the bank to resale the house you have purchased [...]