If Jimmy Fallon’s “puppy predictors” ever start forecasting interest rates, some economists could be out of work. These four-legged furballs may very well have just as much forecasting ability as...

You know the situation is bad when Canadians need to be told by a bank to shop around for mortgage rates. While we at the Spy beat that drum daily,...

If we only had a milli-bitcoin for every time someone said this: “…Long-term data tells us that a variable-rate mortgage is the best option.”—LowestRates.ca No, it doesn’t. What the “data”...

We don’t buy the numbers in this story. Its premise is that some people are better off paying for mortgage default insurance—even if they don’t technically need it—just to get...

Three in five Canadians say they do “a lot” of research before choosing their mortgage, according to a recent Ipsos poll. But when it comes to mortgage renewals, too many put in too little...

If you got a mortgage last year and paid less than 2.76%, you beat the averages. That was the typical rate for a new mortgages in 2016, according to Mortgage Professionals...

When it comes to getting the lowest mortgage rate, where you live matters. Someone searching RateSpy.com from Halifax, for example, sees 2.49% as today’s lowest 5-year fixed mortgage rate. Meanwhile, someone in Vancouver with the...

One of the worst things a mortgage shopper can do is assume that a lender’s rates are competitive. For evidence of that, look no further than the latest data from our nation’s largest...