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Mortgages

Can I get mortgage insurance if I’m on long-term disability?

A reader asks if it’s too late to get mortgage insurance, now that she is long-term disability benefits.

Can I get mortgage insurance if I’m on long-term disability?
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Real Estate

Insight into Vancouver’s real estate market

According to a new provincial government report, just over 5% of real estate purchases in metro Vancouver were made...

Insight into Vancouver’s real estate market
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Mortgages

Mortgage renewal: What’s best a variable or fixed rate?

A reader wants to help his parents and be debt-free sooner. Can he succeed with both goals?

Mortgage renewal: What’s best a variable or fixed rate?

Renovations

Delays in building and land development helps push up home prices

Reforming regulations to encourage new building won’t be easy, but city governments have policy levers at their disposal

Delays in building and land development helps push up home prices

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Buying

Is it the right time to buy a house? Yes. If you have answers

The practical answer has little to do with mortgage rates or housing prices

Is it the right time to buy a house? Yes. If you have answers

Real Estate

What should I do with the family farm?

One option is to sever the land, keep the house, and sell the rest

What should I do with the family farm?
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ETFs

A cynic’s guide to spooking indexers

Here are four reasons to stop wasting time keeping fees and taxes low and to stop being diversified and...

A cynic’s guide to spooking indexers
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Taxes

Where do I pay probate fees?

Len’s will was prepared in Quebec, where most of his assets are located. Now he lives in Ontario. How...

Where do I pay probate fees?

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Financial Planning

Should I dip into my RRSP while on maternity leave?

Resist the temptation to withdraw funds during periods of low income

Should I dip into my RRSP while on maternity leave?

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