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Our 19-point house-hunting checklist for real estate agents & their clients

Housing Wire

Get pre-approved with a local lender. Yes, many buyers will hop online and get a generic pre-approval letter. Many lenders will even be proactive and call the listing agent when the offer is submitted to “sell” the buyer and their qualifications. Yet they’ll be unable to because they aren’t pre-approved for that amount.

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Friday Headlines!

Toronto Realty Blog

The group also wants first-time homebuyers to have access to mortgage terms of up to 30 years for insured mortgages and recommended making mortgage qualification stress tests consistent for both insured and uninsured mortgages, setting the stress test level to two percentage points above the contract rate. “To March 24, 2022.