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Toronto Real Estate Housing Bubble

Playing soccer and talking about the Toronto real estate market and possible housing market bubble usually don’t mix. But anything is possible. Last month while I was in Punta Cana attending the 2012 Mortgage Centre’s Annual conference, Avery Shenfeld, Chief Economist of the CIBC, and I were deadlocked in a seriously competitive game of ...

What Is a Cashback Mortgage?

Bank branches sometimes promote them and you may have come across paper and online ads for them. So what is a cashback mortgage, and more importantly, who should consider them? A cashback means that the lender will give you 5% of your mortgage amount back as cash. So, if you borrow $100,000 they will ...