mortgage rate trends

Fixed mortgage rates are rising. What’s the deal?

April 18, 2024 No Comments

As variable-rate mortgage holders eagerly anticipate the Bank of Canada’s first rate cut, fixed rates are heading in the other direction: up.

Opinion: Are fixed mortgage rates poised to rise? Here’s why I think so.

April 3, 2024 1 Comment

It seems that the Canadian bond market has a spring in its step these days. After hitting a low around 3.26% in January, the Government of Canada 5-year bond yield—which typically leads fixed mortgage rates—finished Tuesday’s session at 3.63%.

Tiff Macklem, governor of the Bank of Canada, speaks during an event at the Toronto Region Board of Trade in Toronto

“Still too early” to start cutting rates, says BoC’s Macklem

March 6, 2024 No Comments

Following today’s decision by the Bank of Canada to leave interest rates on hold, Governor Tiff Macklem said plainly that it’s still too early to being

Fixed mortgage rates in Canada resume their decline amid economic volatility

February 3, 2024 No Comments

After a short-lived upswing in bond yields last month that nudged some fixed mortgage rates higher, lenders are once again bringing them back down.

Sticky inflation to push Bank of Canada rate cuts to at least June: economists

January 22, 2024 No Comments

A majority of economists believe stubborn inflation is likely to delay the first Bank of Canada rate cut until at least June.

Rise in bond yields could send fixed mortgage rates higher, experts say

January 18, 2024 No Comments

A sudden rise in bond yields this week could cause some lenders to reverse recent fixed mortgage rate cuts, experts say.

2023 mortgage market year in review

December 29, 2023 No Comments

As we wrap up a year full of economic twists and turns—and interest rate ups and downs—we wanted to look back at some of the top mortgage-related stories that graced our pages in 2023.

Big banks and lenders slash mortgage rates in time for the holidays

December 21, 2023 2 Comments

Several of Canada’s big banks and numerous other lenders are offering a practical gift for borrowers this holiday season: lower mortgage rates.

Most mortgage borrowers to see payments rise 34% to 54% vs. early 2022: Bank of Canada

December 20, 2023 No Comments

If you had a mortgage as of February 2022, chances are you will be facing a payment increase before the end of 2025.

13,000 CIBC mortgage clients have come out of negative amortization

December 18, 2023 4 Comments

Over the past three months, roughly 13,000 CIBC clients have taken action to bring their mortgages out of negative amortization.