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Contact Marko Gelo, he's a Mortgage Broker! 604-800-9593 cell/text Vancouver 403-606-3751 cell/text Calgary Call Marko via WhatsApp homefinancingsolutions.ca The Bank of Canada rate hike to 2.50% is its first since 2023, and history says we can expect more to come. In this article, I dig into why the Bank hiked, why one-and-done rate hikes are basically Canadian unicorns, and what the market i...

Contact Marko Gelo, he's a Mortgage Broker! 604-800-9593 cell/text Vancouver 403-606-3751 cell/text Calgary Call Marko via WhatsApp homefinancingsolutions.ca Inflation is back up to 3.1%, the bond market is pricing a Bank of Canada hike as early as this Wednesday, and fixed rates have already started moving — while prices in Vancouver, Calgary and Edmonton keep softening. That's a strange...

Contact Marko Gelo, he's a Mortgage Broker! 604-800-9593 cell/text Vancouver 403-606-3751 cell/text Calgary Call Marko via WhatsApp homefinancingsolutions.ca In this episode of Mortgagenomics Canada, I break down five stories from this past week that could move your interest rate or the value of your home. We cover why bond yields are driving fixed rates higher ahead of the October 28 Bank of...

Contact Marko Gelo, he's a Mortgage Broker! 604-800-9593 cell/text Vancouver 403-606-3751 cell/text Calgary Call Marko via WhatsApp homefinancingsolutions.ca Welcome to the (very first) Mortgagenomics Weekly Wrap-Up. I break down the biggest economic, market and housing headlines and connect each one to your mortgage rate. This week: the September jobs report, the falling loonie and what it me...

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Contact Marko Gelo, he's a Mortgage Broker! 604-800-9593 cell/text Vancouver 403-606-3751 cell/text Calgary Call Marko via WhatsApp homefinancingsolutions.ca Most people assume fixed mortgage rates move randomly, or that only lenders know when a change is coming — neither is actually true. There's a specific pattern that shows up in the market days before a fixed rate hike or drop, and it&...

Contact Marko Gelo, he's a Mortgage Broker! 604-800-9593 cell/text Vancouver 403-606-3751 cell/text Calgary Call Marko via WhatsApp homefinancingsolutions.ca If you're not a Canadian citizen or PR and you're eyeing a home in Vancouver, Victoria, or Kelowna, there are two rules to be aware of. A lot of buyers clear the first hurdle and assume they're done, only to find out the second one applies co...

Contact Marko Gelo, he's a Mortgage Broker! 604-800-9593 cell/text Vancouver 403-606-3751 cell/text Calgary Call Marko via WhatsApp homefinancingsolutions.ca The last few days handed us a genuinely unusual run of headlines — Canada's global investment pitch, a brand new tax break, a surprise offer from the EU, and the Fed's first rate hike in three years, all within days of each other. Any one of...

Contact Marko Gelo, he's a Mortgage Broker! 604-800-9593 cell/text Vancouver 403-606-3751 cell/text Calgary Call Marko via WhatsApp homefinancingsolutions.ca Most homeowners talk about "the variable rate mortgage" like it's one single product, but it's actually two structurally different ones — and one of them has a hidden threshold called a trigger rate that quietly extended a lot of people's amo...

Contact Marko Gelo, he's a Mortgage Broker! 604-800-9593 cell/text Vancouver 403-606-3751 cell/text Calgary Call Marko via WhatsApp homefinancingsolutions.ca The Bank of Canada held rates today, but fixed mortgages could still rise. Here's the bond market story behind the headline — and what to do about it. CLICK HERE to be redirected to the blog version of this episode. CLICK HERE to be redirecte...

Contact Marko Gelo, he's a Mortgage Broker! 604-800-9593 cell/text Vancouver 403-606-3751 cell/text Calgary Call Marko via WhatsApp homefinancingsolutions.ca If you're shopping for a home or coming up on a renewal in the next several months, your rate hold matters more than you'd think — and it doesn't work the way most people assume. Some lenders quietly pad the held rate with a premium while oth...

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Contact Marko Gelo, he's a Mortgage Broker! 604-800-9593 cell/text Vancouver 403-606-3751 cell/text Calgary Call Marko via WhatsApp homefinancingsolutions.ca With the CUSMA trade talks collapsing and the Bank of Canada holding steady, a lot of people assume all interest rates are moving in the same direction — they're not. What most people don't realize is that your variable rate and your fixed ra...

Contact Marko Gelo, he's a Mortgage Broker! 604-800-9593 cell/text Vancouver 403-606-3751 cell/text Calgary Call Marko via WhatsApp homefinancingsolutions.ca Canadian inflation hit 3.0% in July, but almost the entire move traces back to one thing: gas prices tied to overseas shipping disruptions. What a lot of people don't realize is that even if the Bank of Canada holds steady on September 2nd, y...

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Contact Marko Gelo, he's a Mortgage Broker! 604-800-9593 cell/text Vancouver 403-606-3751 cell/text Calgary Call Marko via WhatsApp homefinancingsolutions.ca There's a troubling pattern showing up across BC and Alberta right now — buyers shopping for condos with a pre-approval that was never built around the actual cost of condo ownership. Two variables that every condo qualification must include...

Contact Marko Gelo, he's a Mortgage Broker! 604-800-9593 cell/text Vancouver 403-606-3751 cell/text Calgary Call Marko via WhatsApp homefinancingsolutions.ca Western Canada's housing markets — Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, the Interior, the Island — are each at a different point in their cycle right now, and many analysts are starting to signal that some regions may be approaching a turning point....

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