Adonis Dhuper - Mortgage Expert

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Adonis Dhuper - Mortgage Expert

Mortgage broker with Dominion Lending Centres, Edmonton, AB, Canada. I shop your file across dozens of lenders instead of just one bank’s guess.

Renewals, refinances, first homes, self-employed, new to Canada. Call me at 587-778-2319

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08/28/2026

Miss your renewal letter, or just never get around to it, and nothing bad happens right away. That's what makes it easy to ignore.

Here's what actually happens instead. Your mortgage doesn't just sit there waiting for you. Most lenders roll it straight into a new term at their posted rate, often a short one, and posted rates are rarely their best ones. You didn't choose that term or that rate. It just became yours.

By law, your lender only has to give you 21 days' notice before that happens. Most people assume there's more runway than that.

You don't have to do anything complicated to avoid it. Just open the letter before the date on it passes, and get a second number to compare against whatever it says.

Don't let a renewal happen to you. Call (587) 778-2319

08/24/2026

Buying here meant moving fast for two years straight, and hoping you got it right.

That urgency was real. What nobody sends out is a notice when it stops being real, so people keep bidding like it's still spring.

July's numbers from the Realtors Association of Edmonton: sales down 11% from last year, inventory 17.9% higher than last July, and homes taking 39 days to sell instead of 33. The benchmark price is $429,100, flat against a year ago. Board chair Darlene Reid called it "strong indicators that demand is subsiding."

Prices aren't collapsing and I'm not going to tell you they are. What changed is the pressure. More to choose from, more time to think, more room to ask for something.

The one part that still rewards moving early is your financing. Some lenders will hold a rate for up to 120 days while you shop, and some will drop you to the lower rate if the market moves while you're holding. Plenty of the cheapest advertised rates do neither. Knowing which is which before you start touring is worth more than a tenth of a point.

Ten minutes and you'll know your real number. Call (587) 778-2319

08/14/2026

The hardest part of moving right now usually isn't the house. It's the rate you'd be handing back.

Nobody really brings porting up, because the default assumption on both sides is that a move means starting a brand new mortgage. It often doesn't.

Porting moves your existing mortgage to your new place, rate and remaining term intact. If the new home costs more, the extra gets blended with today's rate instead of repricing the whole thing.

There are real conditions. You have to requalify, the sale and the purchase have to line up inside your lender's window, and not every mortgage is portable in the first place. Which is exactly why it's a conversation to have before you list, not after you've accepted an offer.

This matters most if you're still sitting on a rate from a few years back with time left on your term. Worth knowing too: Edmonton inventory is 17.9% above last year and homes are taking 39 days to sell versus 33 a year ago. There's more to choose from and more room to negotiate than there was in the spring.

Ten minutes and you'll know if yours can move with you. Call (587) 778-2319.

08/07/2026

Alberta added jobs faster than any other province this year. That's good news, and it's also the thing that quietly complicates a mortgage application.

The rate is down 0.9 points from a year ago to 7.0%, with employment up 3.5%. That's a lot of people who started something new. Here's what nobody warns you about: lenders look hard at how long you've been in your job and whether your income is the same kind it was before. A new job, a new industry, or a jump to self-employment can change what you qualify for even when you're earning more.

If your work changed this year and you have a renewal or a purchase coming, talk it through early. There are far more options before an application goes in than after one gets declined.

Call (587) 778-2319

08/06/2026

Edmonton just flipped back to a seller's market. Sales-to-new-listings went from 53% to 61%, while the benchmark price is still down 2.1% year over year.

Buyers are competing again before prices have caught up. If you've been waiting, get your real number before you start touring, not after you've found the place.

Call (587) 778-2319.

08/04/2026

Core inflation is already below the Bank of Canada's 2% target, at 1.9%. Headline sits at 2.8%, shelter costs rose just 1.5%.

The pressure that drove rates up has largely come out of the system. What that means for your specific mortgage depends on your term, your balance and your renewal date.

Ten minutes on the phone and you'll know. (587) 778-2319.

08/01/2026

Why did fixed rates move when the Bank of Canada didn't do anything? Because fixed rates don't follow the Bank of Canada.

They follow the 5-year Government of Canada bond, currently 3.16%, plus a lender spread, which puts the best insured 5-year fixed around 3.94%.

If you're deciding whether to lock in, let's look at it properly. Message me or call (587) 778-2319

07/30/2026

Sixth hold in a row from the Bank of Canada. Here's the part that gets missed: that sets your variable payment, not your fixed rate.

Fixed pricing follows bond yields and moves on its own. So if you're renewing this year, a hold is not the same as a good offer landing in your mailbox. Let's look at your actual numbers.

Message me or call (587) 778-2319.

07/28/2026

Most people staring down a reno default straight to a personal loan or a high-interest credit line without ever checking what their own equity could do instead.

Rolling the cost into your mortgage almost always beats those two options, and refinancing to access it is more straightforward than people expect. I'll run the real numbers so you know exactly what it looks like before you commit to anything.

Material and labour costs don't wait for you to decide. Message me or call (587) 778-2319

07/23/2026

Found the next place but you haven't sold your current one yet? That gap is what stops most people from making a move, and it really doesn't have to.

Bridge financing lets you close on the new home before the old one sells. No rushing to list, no offer you can't actually act on, no scrambling for somewhere to stay in between. I'll walk you through exactly how it works and what it costs, which is usually a lot less than people expect.

Summer moving season doesn't wait around. Message me or call (587) 778-2319

Address

9138 34A Avenue NW
Edmonton, AB
T6E5P4

Telephone

+15877782319

Website

http://linktr.ee/mortgagesbyadonis

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