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Smart Strategies for First-Time Home Buyers: How to Save Big on Your Mortgage
Buying your first home is a thrilling milestone, but it can also be financially overwhelming if you’re not equipped with the right...

Angela Calla
Nov 243 min read
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Incentives for First-Time Home Buyers: What You Need to Know to Unlock the Door to Homeownership
For many Canadians, owning a home is a dream—a milestone that marks stability, independence, and financial security. For first-time home...

Angela Calla
Nov 103 min read
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Understanding Mortgage Penalties: What Every Canadian Homeowner Should Know?
Mortgage penalties can be a significant financial burden for Canadian homeowners. For many Canadian homeowners, this can become a...

Angela Calla
Oct 273 min read
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3 Smart Money Moves: How to Save More and Stress Less
In a world filled with financial uncertainty, making the right decisions about your money can be overwhelming. With rising interest...

Angela Calla
Oct 133 min read
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Big Wins for First-Time Buyers and Renewing Homeowners with Massive Savings and New Incentives
If you’ve been wondering whether now is the right time to enter the real estate market or restructure your mortgage. How Canadians,...

Angela Calla
Sep 293 min read
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Interest Rate Update: What It Means for Your Mortgage Strategy
As of June 2025, the Bank of Canada has decided to hold its key interest rate steady—a move that affects millions of Canadians managing...

Angela Calla
Sep 153 min read
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Changes to Strata Property Regulation expand exemptions to 55+ bylaws
Changes to the Strata Property Regulation will ensure that people living in stratas with 55+ age restrictions will be able to stay in...

Angela Calla
May 10, 20233 min read
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Is Your Credit Score Keeping you from Owning a Home?
Improving your credit score in Canada is definitely achievable. Remember the rule of 3. 3 credit lines, for 3 years, 30 percent below...

Angela Calla
May 10, 20232 min read
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Vancouver's Permitting Improvement Program
The City of Vancouver's latest permitting improvements are anticipated to save up to 13,800 weeks of processing. Addressing our...

Angela Calla
Mar 25, 20232 min read
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What you NEED to know if you plan to buy a home in the next 5 years
It’s now a little easier to buy your first home in Canada and this is how. Starting April 1st 2023 eligible homebuyers can open a first...

Angela Calla
Mar 9, 20232 min read
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What Will Mortgage Rates Look Like in 2023?
One of the most significant pain points for homeowners, buyers and sellers this past year has been rising interest rates from the Bank of...

Angela Calla
Jan 4, 20233 min read
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What homeowners, buyers, and sellers can expect in 2023
What can homeowners expect to see as far as mortgage rates go in 2023? No one is escaping the pain of higher interest rates. If you were...

Angela Calla
Dec 15, 20227 min read
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It's official: Stratas in BC can no longer ban rentals
A new regulation banning stratas from the ability to restrict homeowners from renting out their residential units is now in effect. ...

Angela Calla
Nov 30, 20224 min read
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October Market Update
The Bank of Canada jacked rates higher by another 50bps, pushing the prime rate to 5.95% and immediately increasing all variable rate...

Angela Calla
Nov 23, 20222 min read
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Laneway homes are on their way to Burnaby.
As outlined in the City of Burnaby’s housing strategy, laneway homes are smaller additional homes built in the backyard of the main...

Angela Calla
Nov 18, 20223 min read
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NEW First Time Home Buyer Program
Are you waiting to purchase your first home? There is good news on the horizon. There is a new type of tax-free savings account for...

Angela Calla
Nov 2, 20223 min read
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Interest Rates Still on the Rise [Global and CBC Coverage]
The Bank of Canada announced its 6th rate hike of the year this morning in an attempt to reach their target inflation rate of 2%. Prime...

Angela Calla
Oct 26, 20222 min read
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Canadian Housing Activity Slowed Again In September As Prices Continued To Fall
Orderly Housing Correction Continues There are many unusual aspects to the current housing correction, but fundamentally the most...

Angela Calla
Oct 19, 20227 min read
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Consumer Matters: Remortgaging during soaring interest rates
Recently we were interviewed by Global News to talk about the surging remortgaging numbers as interest rates continue to increase....

Angela Calla
Oct 3, 20222 min read
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Canadian Inflation Slows For The Second Consecutive Month
Inflation Cooled Again in August, But Higher Rates Still Coming Canada’s headline inflation rate cooled again in August, even a bit more...

Angela Calla
Sep 27, 20223 min read
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