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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
Similar Housing Demand Conditions in Canada and US
Housing markets in Canada and the US are sizzling. Recent headlines have used superlatives to describe housing market conditions in both countries and the data do back this up. Still, a closer look reveals some interesting distinctions as well. Home price and sales metrics show that while the US market is hot, Canadas is hotter. For example, existing home sales, which make up the majority of overall sales in both countries, is well above historical averages, but Canadian home sales have outperformed. As of March 2021, home sales in Canada were 75% higher than the average over 2018 and 2019, while it was 13% above in the US. Likewise, home prices also spiked. In Canada, the average home sold was 32% more expensive than what it was a year ago, and it was 17% higher stateside.
From a high level, the list of commonalties across markets during the pandemic is longer than the areas of difference, particularly on the demand side. Perhaps the most influential demand-side driver has been historically low mortgage rates. Responding to the impacts of the pandemic, the Bank of Canada and the Federal Reserve slashed rates and enacted large quantitative easing programs early last year, resulting in a sharp drop in borrowing costs. Given that the US conventional mortgage rate is a 30-year rate compared to Canadas 5-year benchmark, borrowing costs fell faster in America as flight to safety flows lowered longer term yields at the onset of the pandemic.
Source:https://economics.td.com/housing-heat-check
CANADA HOUSING MARKET and new stress test
Canadian home sales took a turn in April 2021, declining by 12.5% (sa m/m) from the highest level on record in March 2021. Listings followed suit, falling by 5.4% (sa m/m). While both sales and listings decreased in April, the smaller decline in listings further eased the national-level sales-to-new listings to 75.2% from record high readings earlier this year (the highest being 91% in January). While this is a move in the right direction towards a better supply-demand balance, the ratio is still significantly higher than its long-term average of 54.5%. As a result of this persistent tightness in the housing market, the composite MLS Home Price Index (HPI) rose by 2.4% (sa m/m). This is a deceleration in price gains from paces observed over the last two months, owing in the most part to a slowing in prices for single-family homes and townhouses. Apartments, which had remained relatively close to pre-pandemic levels before accelerating earlier this year have maintained momentum in April.
Movements in the housing market this month continued to be broad-based rather than market-specific, as declines in sales were spread out across much of the country.
The Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI) also announced that, effective June 1, the minimum qualifying rate for uninsured mortgages (i.e., residential mortgages with a down payment of 20 percent or more) will be the greater of the mortgage contract rate plus 2 percent or 5.25 percent.
