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The Bank of Canada saw no reason to move its key lending rate from 1.00%, where it has been for a little over a year. That's precisely what the market anticipated and it means prime rate (which is the basis for variable mortgage rates) should remain at 3.00%. The Canadian economy is now expected to return to full ...

Four of Canada’s biggest banks are once again lowering residential mortgage rates at a time when falling government bond yields are cutting funding costs for financial institutions. Royal Bank of Canada, Toronto-Dominion Bank, Bank of Nova Scotia and Bank of Montreal are all trimming their posted rates on popular five-year fixed-rate ...

Rates Effective as at: April 18, 2011 Prime Rate: 3.00% Qualifying Rate: 5.69%   Financial Institution 3 Yr 5 Yr 7 Yr 10 Yr 5 Yr Variable CENTUM Primo**3.694.095.655.502.30Concentra3.994.29N/A N/A 3.00First National 3.69 4.195.10 5.34 2.25FirstLine 4.004.395.255.34 2.35 Home Trust 4.59 5.09N/A N/A 3.50 ING 3.69 4.29 4.79 4.99 2.25 MCAP ...

Fixed Rates:  Have gone up.   5 year term fixed rates range from 3.94% to 4.09% depending on "real deal" vs pre-approval, size of mortgage, and length of time until closing. Variable Rates: Have gone down a little. 5 year variable rate 2.20% (prime minus 0.80%) 3 year variable rate 2.15% The rate used by lenders to ...

The major Canadian banks - CIBC, RBC Royal Bank and TD Canada Trust have increased fixed rate mortgages by 0.25 percentage points to 5.44 per cent.  The banks increased it's one-year fixed rate mortgage 0.15 percentage to 3.5 per cent. The mortgage rates are affected by bond yields. which have also risen as a result of ...

Sales of houses on Toronto MLS are down on a year-over-year basis, which isn’t a surprise. The decline was predicted. Each says last year’s sales were higher than expected because many buyers were brought into the market before the threat of higher fixed mortgage rates became a reality this year, skewing sales figures, thus the large ...

Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. expects short-term interest rates will begin to rise in the second half of 2010. With the overnight rate expected to increase in the coming months, mortgage rates have begun to rise. According to a CMHC scenario, posted mortgage rates will gradually increase throughout the course of 2010, but will do so at a slow ...

Royal Bank of Canada, the country’s largest bank, is leading the way on another round of mortgage-rate hikes, boosting borrowing costs in April for the third time in recent weeks. The rate on a five-year closed mortgage is now 6.25 per cent, an increase from the previous rate of 6.10 per cent. A one-year closed rate will, as of ...

The Bank of Canada took its first steps in March toward returning the country to more normal interest rate levels by signalling a more hawkish tone on inflation and acknowledging the economy is performing better than expected on “vigorous” consumer demand. The messages were conveyed in the Bank of Canada’s latest ...