Brian Turner - mortgage broker

01/12/2026

Un nouveau club de natation des Jeux olympiques spéciaux a vu le jour à Mont-Tremblant. Des athlètes fantastiques et des entraîneurs enthousiastes. Un grand merci à la Ville de Mont-Tremblant pour son soutien qui a permis la mise en place de ce projet.
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New Special Olympics swimming club launched in Mont Tremblant. Fantastic athletes and enthusiastic coaches. Many thanks to the ville de Mont Tremblant for their support in getting this off the ground.

08/20/2024

01/30/2024

Rates dropped this morning! 4.89% for a 5 year fixed. Please feel to reach out to take advantage.

04/02/2022

I work for you, not the bank. Call 249-353-3278 to meet in person or virtually.

06/02/2021

One piece of good news in all of this is that housing starts were up 8.7%. Best way of meeting the current shortage of inventory is to build more houses. Unfortunately this is a lagging indicator.

Housing Drove the Economic Expansion in Q1 This morning’s Stats Canada release showed that the economy grew at a 5.6% annualized rate in the first quarter, after a revised 9.3% pace in the final quarter of last year. That was somewhat below economists’ expectations. Housing investment grew at an...

05/08/2021

No surprise in latest job figures. The lockdown is necessary for our collective health but bad for many sectors of the economy.

Canada’s Jobs Recovery Impaired by Third-Wave Virus Restrictions This morning, Statistics Canada released the April 2021 Labour Force Survey showing a major deterioration in the jobs market following the third-wave Covid containment measures. Employment fell by 207,100 (-1.1%) in April, and the un...

04/15/2021

House prices are up 106.9% in Peterborough and the Kawarthas over the last 5 years.

What is All the Policy Hysteria About? Today the Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) released statistics showing national existing home sales hit another all-time high in March. What was arguably more noteworthy was that new listings hit their highest level on record in seasonally adjusted terms...

04/09/2021

The office of the superintendent for financial institutions is considering setting a floor of 5.25% for the B-20 stress test. This is VERY bad news for first time homebuyers. Please consider sending a comment to the OFSI at [email protected]

Banking Regulator Aims To Make It Tougher To Get An Uninsured Mortgage With several Big-Five bank CEOs calling for regulatory action to slow the red-hot housing market, it didn’t take long for the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI), the governor of federally regulated fi...

03/09/2021

The votes are in! Congratulations to all the nominees who won, and thanks to everyone who voted. Check out the full list of winners.

03/02/2021

Interest rates rose suddenly last week, and may continue to do so.

Canadian 5-Year Bond Yield Surges In an unprecedented move, bond yields are spiking around the world. Yields globally are now at levels last seen before the coronavirus spread worldwide. At the same time, commodity prices are surging, including energy, metals and minerals, agricultural products and....

10/15/2020

Trend of moving away from big cities continues.

Canadian Home Sales and Prices Set Another Record High in September Today’s release of September housing data by the Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) shows national home sales rose 0.9% on a month-over-month (m-o-m) (see chart below). This continues the rebound in housing that began five mo...

10/09/2020

Surprisingly good news on the jobs front.

Canada Has Recouped Three-Quarters Of Pandemic Job Losses The September Labour Force Survey, released this morning by Statistics Canada, reflects labour market conditions during the week of September 13 to 19, six months after the onset of the COVID-19 economic shutdown. As Canadian families adapted...