July 11th Mortgage Industry Update
July 11th, 2017 Mortgage Industry Update
The Bank of Canada announced on May 24th that it’s overnight lending rate will remain at 0.50%. The prime rate remains at 2.70%. Fixed rates have slightly risen over the last week with the expectation they will further slightly increase in the upcoming weeks.
Additionally this week:
– Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver says that its MLS Home Price Index was up 7.9% year/year and 1.8% month/month in June to $998,700.
– EKOS study: Little over 2/5 Canadians believed that housing in this country is not affordable for them; evenly across all income levels.
– Office of the Superintendent of Bankruptcy Canada: Drop in number of consumers filing bankruptcy/personal proposals in April.
– RBC: Typical household in Toronto needs to spend 72% of income on avg priced house. Affordability worsened in Q1 2017 to lowest point ever.
– Ontario proposing banning the practice of double ending, in which a real estate agent represents both a buyer and a seller in a transaction.
– According to RE/MAX’s latest recreational property report, 43% of Canadians would consider buying a recreational property in the next decade.
Stay tuned for the next update!
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