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Company: A Canadian Financial Services Company
Position Title: Mortgage Underwriter
Years of Experience Required: 5 years experience in the residential mortgage industry, particularly broker origination
Licences or Registrations Required: No
Location of Position: Toronto, Ontario
Applicants may contact:  resume@baystreethr.com

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Many have now seen this National Post article.

The gist of it: CMHC is approaching its $600 billion government-imposed limit on issuing mortgage default insurance. That’s happening largely because of lenders’ enormous appetite for something called portfolio insurance (a.k.a., “bulk insurance”).

No one fully grasps the repercussions yet, but our sense is that the news is not great (at least in the short-to-medium term) for mortgage consumers, smaller lenders and brokers.

On the other hand, it may be healthy long-term for the housing market. Here’s why…

Canada’s housing market is more like a balloon than a bubble, writes BMO Capital Markets in this report.

It should “deflate slowly” in the absence of a “pin.”

That “pin” (catalyst) could be one of the following, says BMO (our comments in italics):

• An approximately 400 bps increase in mortgage rates (BMO’s Sal Guatieri told CBC today: “We tend to rule out that shock.” But his report notes “Even a moderate two-percentage-point increase to more normal levels would put some strain on affordability and slow the market.”)
• Major job losses
  (BMO is talking on the order of 400,000+. It adds: “Unless Europe’s credit crisis worsens materially, a recession is not in the cards given current low interest rates.”)

Lenders like to keep you in their web as long as possible. If you’ve got a closed mortgage and try to escape, they sink their penalty fangs deep in your wallet.

To the surprise of many, there are dramatic differences in how those penalties are calculated, even at the same bank.

CIBC, for example, sells mortgages under multiple brands, with “CIBC” and “FirstLine” being the most popular.

Recently, we did an interest rate differential (IRD) penalty calculation for a FirstLine customer who wanted to refinance. This client was fortunate to have closed his mortgage at FirstLine instead of directly with CIBC.

Government mortgage restrictions instituted from 2008-2011 have not achieved their goal, suggests Desjardins’ Senior Economist Benoit Durocher.

He wrote this on Thursday:

“…The third series of [government mortgage rules] was announced nearly a year ago now, and we must conclude that the tightening introduced to date has not
slowed the market enough.

Under these conditions, it is likely, and perhaps even desirable, that the federal government will shortly announce a fourth series of measures to further limit mortgage credit.”

It almost sounds like Durocher has some inside info.

 
Company: Pillar financial Services Inc.
Position Title: Business Development Officer
Years of Experience Required: 5-10
Licences or Registrations Required: Registered Mortgage Broker
Location of Positions: Ottawa, Ontario
Applicants may contact:  barb.neill@robinsonsgroup.com

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On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve dished out good news to mortgagors holding short-terms or variable rates.

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