CMHC Mortgage Regulations to Restrict Real Estate Investment
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Kitchener Waterloo Real Estate Investment Properties- Currently when you buy a rental property, CMHC will allow you to use a 80% rental offset, which means that they used to take 80% of the gross rental income that the income property generated, and subtract that from the borrowers total debt, to establish the total debt service (TDS) ratio.
What that means is that you don’t have to have the household income to cover 100% of the value of the rental property, like you do with a home you live in, because the bank will let you offset the debt using 80% of the revenue the rental produces (does that make sense?).
They’re changing this amount to 50%, which makes it much tougher for people to qualify for investment properties, but the real kicker is that…
Summary of Flaherty’s mortgage changes
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Financial Post- On Tuesday, the Department of Finance announced three changes to the standards governing government-backed mortgages, that come into force April 19. Here are a summary of the changes…
QUALIFYING FOR A FIVE-YEAR RATE
The adjustments to the mortgage framework will require mortgage insurers to ensure that new borrowers qualify for a five-year fixed rate mortgage when calculating the gross debt service and total debt service ratios. The measure is intended to protect Canadians by providing them with additional flexibility to support mortgage payments at higher interest rates in the future… (Summary cont’d)…
