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Everything you need to know about your credit score
Everything you need to know about your credit score
We separates fact from fiction.
Its something most of us have, but dont know much about. Were talking about credit scores. Credit scores play an important role if youre looking to make a large purchase, like buying a house or car. Financial expert Robyn Thompson breaks things down and separates fact from fiction.
What is a credit score?
Your credit score can range from as low as 300 to as high as 900. While theres no magic number, the following ranges are generally used by lenders.
760-900: Amazing!
725-759: Good job!
660-724 Average.
561-659: Some debt.
300-560: Poor credit.
Keeping your credit score in check
Check your credit score annually
A check can reveal signs of identity theft or errors that appear on your report. Do this annually for both credit bureaus. Ensure that attempts have not been made to open credit cards, other loans, or mortgages in your name. And request any errors be corrected.
Monitor your payment history
Your payment history is the most important factor for your credit score. To improve your payment history:
*Always make your payments on time
*At the very least, make the minimum payment
*Contact the lender right immediately if you cant pay a bill
*Never skip a payment even if its in dispute
Use credit wisely
Dont go over your credit limit and use less than 35 per cent of your available credit. Lenders view the use of maximum credit as a greater risk factor, even if you pay your balance in full by the due date.
Limit your credit applications and credit checks
A credit check is recorded as an inquiry by the credit bureau. If there are too many credit checks on your report, lenders may think you need credit urgently or that youre living beyond your means by juggling credit.
Myths
Some of the most common credit myths are:
**Your score drops if you check your own credit. Viewing your own report and score is counted as a soft inquiry and doesnt change the score one way or another. On the other hand, hard inquiries by a lender or creditor can slightly lower your credit score.
**Closing old accounts raises your score. Wrong. This might actually have the opposite effect because your credit history appears shorter. If you need to close accounts, shut down the new ones first.
**Paying off a negative record takes it off your credit report. Negative records collection accounts, late payments, etc. will remain on your credit reports for up to seven years from the date of first delinquency. It will still have some effect until it is purged from your report by the credit reporting company.
**Co-signing a loan takes the heat off you. No, it doesnt. You are held legally responsible for joint or co-signed accounts. And activity on the joint accounts shows up on the credit reports of both account holders. You can end dual liability on joint accounts by having one party refinance the loan or persuade the creditor to formally take you off the account. Better yet, avoid joint or co-signed credit.
**Paying off a debt boosts your credit score by 50 points. A myth. Because of the
complexity of credit-score calculations, its almost impossible the effect one factor might have on points. For the best credit score pay your bills on time, lower your debts, and ensure inaccuracies are corrected. A proven record of sound financial management will have the most significant impact on your score.
Higher interest rates and household debt: Cause for recession?
From National Bank of Canada
There is a great deal of concern regarding the vulnerability of Canadian households not only to inflation shock but also to sharp interest rate hikes.
For heavily indebted households, the bill could prove hefty. Those that contracted mortgages 4.Sx their gross income could see their monthly payments increase by $187 to $281 from 2022 to 2024 and absorb as much as 2.6% to 4.0% of their net income.
At the macroeconomic level, however, the story is far different given the high proportion of properties without mortgages. By our calculations, the payment shock related to servicing the accumulated debt will represent 0.65% of disposable income over the next three years. The amount is significant but manageable in that it alone will not suffice to pull the economy into a recession.
https://www.nbc.ca/content/dam/bnc/en/rates-and-analysis/economic-analysis/special-report_220728.pdf
Prices continue to lose momentum in June
With the decrease in resale market transactions and the increase in interest rates, property price growth moderated for a third consecutive month, but still remained solid in June at 1.0% after adjusting for seasonal effects. Using the seasonally adjusted unsmoothed index, which is more sensitive to market fluctuations, the moderation is even more pronounced, with property prices essentially flat in May and June. While the Bank of Canada has indicated that it will continue to raise its policy rate and that transactions in the real estate market should continue to decline, we anticipate that the composite index should decrease by 10% by the end of 2023. The price declines have already begun to spread across the country. In fact, for all 32 markets where the seasonally adjusted unsmoothed index was available in June, 58% experienced a decline during the month, compared to 34% in May and only 16% in January. We have to go back to May 2020, at the very beginning of the pandemic when uncertainty was at its peak, to find such a large proportion of markets in decline.
https://www.nbc.ca/content/dam/bnc/en/rates-and-analysis/economic-analysis/economic-news-teranet.pdf