Canada's mortgage payments could spike up to 40%
Per Bank of Canada
Recently, the Bank of Canada shared its findings regarding the financial situation of the country in its Financial System Review - 2023 report. The bank detailed what fixed-rate and variable-rate mortgages were experiencing.
It was reported that for variable payments, these buyers already experienced close to a 50% increase, with most of this happening during 2022. For fixed payments, buyers were said to need to increase payments by around 40% to keep their original amortization schedule.
For fixed payments, this came with the assumption that there would be a renewal in 2025 or 2026. This came as the bank was trying to determine how mortgage payments were affected by higher interest rates.
In order for the Bank of Canada to conduct the study, they had to use data from institutions that were federally regulated and anonymize the loan-level data. The simulation found that mortgages have either already or are still expected to register higher payments compared to the numbers during February 2022.
It was also expected that in 2025 and 2026, variable-rate mortgages with fixed payments were expected to experience a close to 40% increase. In 2025, the expectation was that it would be a little below 40%, while in 2026, the expectation was that it would be above 40%.
In February, it was determined that population growth from immigration has caused Canada's rents to surge in its major cities. Some of the most impacted cities were Halifax, Toronto, Calgary, Vancouver, Montreal, Ottawa, and Winnipeg.
In January, a month before this, Canada announced that it was banning foreigners from buying residential property for two years, as it reached new levels in 2022. The legislation would apply to residential properties located in a census metropolitan area or a census agglomeration.
The only places that weren't subject to the ban were in municipalities that had a population of less than 10,000.
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