According to The Department of Finance’s announcement it has been changed some of the rules for the new high-ratio mortgages in Canada, which will take effect from October 15, 2008. According to the new mortgage policy, new mortgages with government-backed mortgage insurance policies whether issued by the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation or private insurers, the maximum amortization period will be 35 years, and the minimum down payment will be five per cent (borrowers may borrow their five per cent down payment, but it will not be insured).
Like most of the mortgage companies have already start working their maximum amortization to 35 years for new mortgages and so do the borrower start thinking their own way, where is a possibility the mortgage application mostly effected before implication date or after? but mortgage client is out in the market due to the favorable temperature and an interest rate which is already fixed by the Bank of Canada, and who knows what it’ll be after the October 15.