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Blair's Mortgage Blog — Latest Posts
Blair MacFarlane || April 27, 2020
Mortgage Interest Rates in the COVID-19 Economy
Mortgages and interest rates are still talked-about topics in the current economic climate. Here’s a recap. In January 2020, just prior to the pandemic surfacing in Canada, a five-year fixed...
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Blair MacFarlane || April 23, 2020
Mortgage Rate Strategies
Last month the Bank of Canada announced emergency rate drops. This resulted in a short-term rise in mortgage rates. This was due to a liquidity crunch that will be felt short term. As of this week...
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Blair MacFarlane || March 23, 2020
The Health Crisis and Your Mortgage
A lot has changed in the last few weeks, much of it unsettling. The current COVID-19 health crisis has created some level of uncertainty among the population and a lot of unknowns. So, here’s a...
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Blair MacFarlane || March 07, 2020
Recent changes may be good news for homebuyers
We’ve had back-to-back changes recently in the mortgage world – one direct, one indirect. The benchmark rate used to qualify will change downwards starting April 6, 2020, and the Bank of Canada...
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