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Steve Futyer || October 15, 2020

Home Appraisals – The New Normal During COVID-19

Many aspects of the homebuying process changed drastically due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but few have relied on such creative solutions as those employed for home appraisals. In the early days of...

Steve Futyer || September 28, 2020

The Surge in Home Sales. What’s Next?

So COVID happened and is still happening; and while the real estate market did take a hit in March and April, it came back like gangbusters in subsequent months. According to the Canadian Real...

Steve Futyer || September 14, 2020

Is Your Mortgage Deferral Coming to an End? Here’s What You Can Do…

Many of Canada’s lenders and mortgage insurers stepped up to the plate at the height of the pandemic by offering homeowners the option to defer their mortgage payments by up to six months....

Steve Futyer || August 31, 2020

Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) is in the news again

Evan Siddall, CEO of CMHC, recently released a letter to CMHC-approved Lenders that said, in part, "There is a dark economic underbelly to this business that I want to expose”. He may be...