Ontario's mortgage broker regulator recently released a new supervision plan for consumer protection. Before doing so, it (FSRA) discovered several problems with the brokered mortgages it audited. Among them: * 100% of private mortgage files "lacked documented suitability assessments and exit strategies." 💡For the uninitiated, private mortgage

Got investor clients? Here’s some intelligence you can share that adds value—and, with luck, dollars to their net worth. Earlier this year, real estate advisory firm Altus examined what drives ROI in single-family rental investing. Some of the findings were unintuitive, leading us to probe further by chatting

💡If you didn't see part I, check it out here. In MLN's grand finale with Andrew Gilmour, SVP of Residential at CMLS, he dives into: * A powerful new product that CMLS is working on * Instant rate holds * The potential evolution of extended rate holds * Non-federally regulated

Here's a crushing of economists' forecasts that we don't see every day. GDP just humbled the consensus -0.5% estimate, landing at 2.6% annualized in the third quarter. Regrettably, it appears to be a classic statistical headfake.