8 December 2022 | Other

Mortgage rate in Canada may exceed 8% after recent Central Bank raise

The Bank of Canada recently increased the rate, and it can bring many problems to housing buyers. They will have to prove that they can pay out the mortgage loan with an interest rate above 8%. It is another reason the housing market has cooled. 

Variable and base rates are almost equal.  At the same time, they exceeded rates on overnight loans by 2.2 points.

On Wednesday, the central bank increased the key interest rate to 4.25%, keeping the fight against inflation. These actions will increase the commercial bank rate to 6.45%. This is almost twice as much as in April.

Currently, the largest banks like the Royal Bank of Canada and Toronto-Dominion Bank make rates on mortgages a little below the base rate. Most likely, the lower limit of variable rates on mortgage loans will be at the level of 6%, and the upper one is at 8%.


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