Mortgages
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What Closing Actually Costs, on Top of the Down Payment
Land transfer tax, the sales tax on mortgage insurance, legal fees and the rest. Which of these are published rates, and which nobody publishes at all.
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Why a Canadian Mortgage Payment Is Not an American One
Canadian fixed rate mortgages compound twice a year because the Interest Act says so. What that changes, why the term is not the amortization, and what accelerated really means.