Maria Mercado - Mortgage Broker

Maria Mercado || May 15, 2020

Where would you prefer to live?

As we move into Spring, and as provinces across the country begin easing restrictions, The Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) is hopeful that home sales will start to tick up. The housing and...

Maria Mercado || April 27, 2020

Mortgage Interest Rates in the COVID-19 Economy

Mortgages and interest rates are still talked-about topics in the current economic climate. Here’s a recap. In January 2020, just prior to the pandemic surfacing in Canada, a five-year fixed...

Maria Mercado || March 23, 2020

The Health Crisis and Your Mortgage

A lot has changed in the last few weeks, much of it unsettling. The current COVID-19 health crisis has created some level of uncertainty among the population and a lot of unknowns. So, here’s a...

Maria Mercado || March 07, 2020

Recent changes may be good news for homebuyers

We’ve had back-to-back changes recently in the mortgage world – one direct, one indirect. The benchmark rate used to qualify will change downwards starting April 6, 2020, and the Bank of Canada...