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High interest rates have applied the brakes to Canada’s mortgage market, which saw growth slow to a 22-year low in September.

Surging interest rates are weighing down on current homeowners – and further turbulence is on the horizon

Canadian homeowners are facing a significant payment shock on their mortgages unless interest rates decline in the coming years, according to a new Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) ... More

Over the past two weeks, yields have risen by over 30 basis points, or 0.30%. Since bond yields typically lead fixed mortgage rate pricing, rates have been steadily on the ... More

With interest rates increasingly expected to stay higher for longer, many of the homeowners who locked in low rates years ago are likely bracing themselves for financial pain ... More

Fixed mortgage rates could surge higher in the coming week after Government of Canada bond yields—which lead fixed mortgage rates—shot up to a 16-year-high.

This is despite a projected slight drop in the BoC’s policy rate by the end of 2024 or early 2025

A prolonged period of heightened interest rates will be critical to Canada’s central bank reaching its inflation target, a former Bank of Canada Governor said.

The Bank of Canada (BoC) will not raise rates again and will start cutting a little later than previously anticipated, according to a survey of market participants released by ... More

Canada's record pace of interest rate hikes has led to the repayment period for many variable rate mortgages lengthening to over 30 years, helping to shield households from ... More

Mortgage lenders, including most of the big banks, have continued to hike their fixed mortgage rates following the recent surge in Government of Canada bond yields, which are ... More

While the pain of elevated interest rates is already hitting those with variable-rate mortgages, the sticker shock of higher payments might not be felt for a couple years among ... More

The Bank of Canada's governing council considered waiting until July to raise interest rates, but ultimately decided to act sooner in the face of hot economic data.

Central banks seek sweet spot between fighting inflation and sparking recession

Could the prospect of persistently high rates spell trouble for the market’s stability?

Variable-rate borrowers will see their interest cost on their next mortgage payment rise as banks and other financial institutions have lifted their prime rates to a 22-year ... More

The past two weeks have seen a flurry of mortgage rate increases at mortgage lenders, including several of the Big 6 banks.

The central bank has kept the policy rate frozen at 4.5% in its two most recent meetings

Bond yields and central bank rates have never been lower, but not all the savings are filtering down.

Canada’s mortgage rates are creeping up even though the country’s central bank has slashed borrowing costs to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.

Remember the Bank of Canada’s anxiety over worrisome consumer debt loads and housing imbalances? So much for that.

Just a few days before the Bank of Canada’s March 4 meeting, the Monetary Policy Council of the C.D. Howe Institute called on the institution to lower its benchmark ... More

Fixed rate mortgages could go on sale as fears of spreading coronavirus push bond yields down

The Bank of Canada held interest rates steady but expressed heightened concern about a slowing economy.

The 2020s won’t be the decade to lock into a long-term fixed mortgage, according to RBC Economics.

TD economists says the cost of servicing debts should ease early in 2020

The Bank of Canada kept its key interest rate on hold as expected at 1.75 per cent where it has been for more than a year as it said Wednesday that ongoing trade conflicts and ... More

Scotiabank now sees the Bank of Canada lowering its benchmark interest rate at the beginning of 2020 instead of at the central bank’s next meeting.

Canada’s outstanding mortgage credit load continues breaking records, reaching a new high of more than $1.59 trillion as of August, according to the country’s ... More

Great News for Canadians waiting for lower rates as the effects of shrinking global economy to hit Canada as well.