July 12th Mortgage Industry Update
July 12th, 2016 Mortgage Industry Update
The Bank of Canada announced on May 25th that it’s overnight lending rate will remain at 0.50%. The prime rate remains at 2.70%. Most fixed rates have also slightly declined.
Additionally this week:
– Introducing a new 5 year variable promotional low rate of 2.25%!!!
– TREB: As of June 2016, average sale price of a detached house in Toronto stood at $979,445, spike from $816,583 the same month last year.
– Statistics Canada: National unemployment rate fell to 6.8 per cent in June, down from 6.9 per cent the previous month.
– Government figures: June 10 to June 29 just 3% of homes sold in BC were bought by neither Canadian citizens or permanent residents.
– Toronto Real Estate Board: Average home in GTA cost $639,909 in June 2015, but now you can expect to pay $746,546. Up 16.8% or $107,000.
– Bank of Canada study: Lending much stricter in Q2 2016. Tighter business-lending conditions effecting small businesses, commercial borrowers.
Stay tuned for the next update!
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