Dr. Sherry Cooper – Chief Economist, Dominion Lending Centres Four-Month Home Sales Gain Despite Weak B.C. Markets The Canadian housing market showed continued signs of stabilizing last month with sales edging upward and prices easing a bit. National home sales increased 0.9% in August, the fourth consecutive monthly gain. Sales in Toronto advanced 2.2% while […]

DLC BLOG Keeping Your Credit Score Healthy There is a lot of mis-information floating around about credit bureaus, credit reports and credit scores – not only that, but a large amount of the clients I work with have never even seen their credit report or score before! I’d like to shed a bit of light, […]

DLC BLOG The Real Estate Bug The real estate bug is something slowly starting to creep it’s way into the demographic of people in my social circle. Some, not all, are beginning to move on from their “Travel Bug” brought on from graduating high school or post-secondary and onto The Real Estate Bug. The Real […]

Dr. Sherry Cooper – Chief Economist, Dominion Lending Centres Canadian Jobs Plunge in August As Unemployment Rises In a real shocker, Statistics Canada announced this morning that employment dropped by 51,600, retracing most of the 54,100 gain in July. Economists had been expecting a much stronger number, but the Labour Force Survey is notoriously volatile, […]

DLC BLOG Subject Free Offers; Still Risky! The majority of my clients have stellar qualifications: established careers and businesses, excellent credit ratings, solid down payment funds, etc. They are truly awesome individuals who will almost certainly receive mortgage financing without a hitch. Almost certainly. With multiple offers, bidding wars, and over-asking-price bids now common as […]

Dr. Sherry Cooper – Chief Economist, Dominion Lending Centres Poloz Holds The Line On Rates Bank on Hold As Housing Expected to Continue to Slow As expected, the Bank of Canada held its key overnight rate this morning at 1.5%, asserting that July’s surprising spike in CPI inflation to 3% was in large part because […]

DLC BLOG 4 Mortgage Steps to Overcoming High Consumer Debt Client success stories are what make our job WORTH IT (We think most mortgage brokers would agree). So, with this in mind, we are sharing a recent client’s story that allowed them to not only purchase the home they wanted, but also pay down their […]

DLC BLOG Bridge Loans If you have ever sold your home in order to help with the purchase of your next home, chances are you have heard of bridge financing. Bridge financing is an option available to homeowners if they find themselves in a little bit of a pinch when it comes to two different […]

Dr. Sherry Cooper – Chief Economist, Dominion Lending Centres Q2 Canadian Growth Rebounded to 2.9% This morning, Stats Canada released the second quarter GDP figures indicating a sharp rebound in growth to its most robust pace in a year. Real gross domestic product growth accelerated to 2.9% (all figures quoted in annual rates), up sharply […]

DLC BLOG Your mortgage broker is here to help For many people in Canada, they are first-time home buyers. Or if they are new to Canada, it’s their first home purchase in a new country. They may not be aware of the rules and guidelines. It’s the job of your mortgage broker to make you […]