British Columbia is a great place to live, but, unfortunately, for a first-time home buyer — often a younger person — the barriers to home ownership are quite prohibitive. The BC housing market is expensive and competitive. A first-time home buyer in BC will need to have their finances in tip top shape and will
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Plenty of people in British Columbia have a dream of owning their own home. Renting is not the most comfortable or stable of situations — and then there’s the high rents to consider. In Victoria BC, the average rent for a one-bedroom was $2,053 per month in September 2023, and it is even worse in
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Prime lending rates have been increasing since the beginning of 2022 in response to the Bank of Canada’s (BoC) attempt to get a handle on inflation. In their July 2023 announcement the BoC raised Canada’s overnight lending rate to 5%, resulting in the 7.2% prime rate currently used by banks. High prime rates mean a
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Getting trapped in a loan with unfavourable mortgage rates can mean you’ll be paying hundreds of thousands of dollars more over the lifetime of the loan. In 2023, with interest rates what they are, is there such a thing as favourable mortgage rates? Maybe not, but there are definitely things you can do to tip
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