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David Wagg and Peter Caprarella
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NEW MORTGAGE RULE CHANGES
On October 3 the federal government made significant changes to the way Canadians can finance their homes.
Starting Oct. 17, all insured mortgages will have to undergo a stress test with a qualifying rate of 4.64% to determine whether a borrower could still make mortgage payments if faced with higher interest rates or less income. Previously, such stress tests werent required for fixed-rate mortgages longer than five years only on variable rate mortgages.
On Nov. 30, several eligibility rules will tighten on mortgages where borrowers made down payments of at least 20% of the purchase price.
In a move to reduce the flow of foreign cash into markets like Toronto and Vancouver, the government said it will tighten a loophole on an exemption that allows homeowners to avoid paying capital gains tax on the sale of a principal residence.
Going forward, that exemption will only be available to Canadian residents, Morneau said, and families will only be allowed to designate one home as their primary residence.
A maximum amortization of 25 years will apply to all insured mortgages.
More significantly the government is talking about stress testing on the renewal of existing mortgages which if the clients dont qualify the banks can charge them higher interest rates knowing that they cant transfer their mortgage somewhere else.
The lenders have already started to adopt these new policies and anybody that currently has a pre-approval and is shopping for a home will need to re-qualify under the new rules in effect reducing the size of the mortgage they can afford.
Self employed small business owners who do not show much income will have a much more difficult time getting financing as many lenders have suspended their stated income programs.
Finally the properties most affected by these changes is rental properties with most of the lenders canceling or at least suspending their rental programs.
I would be more than happy to sit down and discuss these changes in detail so please do not hesitate to contact me.
Sincerely,
David Wagg
Mortgage Deferral Agreements and Their Impact
CMHCs Fall 2020 Residential Mortgage Industry Dashboard discusses mortgage deferral agreements and their impact.
At the end of the second quarter, credit unions, mortgage finance companies (MFCs) and mortgage investment entities (MIEs) have allowed mortgage deferral agreements for about 6%, 7% and 7% of their respective residential mortgage portfolios.
Chartered banks have allowed 16% of mortgages to go into deferral since the beginning of the pandemic. Of these, close to 2 out of 3 borrowers had resumed payments on their mortgages at the end of the third quarter of 2020. In the coming months, we could see higher delinquency rates if some borrowers are unable to resume their payments; these mortgages will have to be booked as arrears.
These deferral agreements have affected financial institutions cash flows, with reductions of:
4% in scheduled mortgage payments
3% in non-scheduled payments (accelerated monthly payments and lump-sum payments)
While remaining at low levels, mortgages in arrears (90 or more days delinquent) have increased slightly between the first and second quarters of 2020 from:
0.24% to 0.26%, on average, for chartered banks
0.23% to 0.25%, on average, for non-bank mortgage lenders
We also observe an increase in early-stage delinquencies (31 to 59 days and 60 to 89 days), which suggests that arrears could continue on an upward trend.
Source: CMHC
Bank of Canada will maintain current level of policy rate until inflation objective is achieved, continues its quantitative easing program
The Bank of Canada today maintained its target for the overnight rate at the effective lower bound of percent, with the Bank Rate at percent and the deposit rate at percent. The Bank is maintaining its extraordinary forward guidance, reinforced and supplemented by its quantitative easing (QE) program, which continues at its current pace of at least $4 billion per week.
The rebound in the global and Canadian economies has unfolded largely as the Bank had anticipated in its October Monetary Policy Report (MPR). More recently, news on the development of effective vaccines is providing reassurance that the pandemic will end and more normal activities will resume, although the pace and breadth of the global rollout of vaccinations remain uncertain. Near term, new waves of infections are expected to set back recoveries in many parts of the world. Accommodative policy and financial conditions are continuing to provide support across most regions. Stronger demand is pushing up prices for most commodities, including oil. A broad-based decline in the US exchange rate has contributed to a further appreciation of the Canadian dollar.
