Ottawa tightens mortgage requirements

With interest rates at all time lows it doesn’t surprise us that another big change is coming. As of October 17, 2016 all insured mortgages will have to qualify at the Bank of Canada mortgage qualifying rate(MQR), currently 4.64%. Previously…

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Is your Credit Score the score you think it is?

The answer is probably not. Equifax Canada uses 6 different types of credit score algorithms(mathematical formulas used to calculate the score) which are used by different lending industries. For example the auto industry uses a different type of score than…

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