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Mortgage refinancing – How it helps you avoid an impending foreclosure

Mortgage refinancing – How it helps you avoid an impending foreclosure Author: Peter Gomes If you’re worried about an impending foreclosure due to failure to keep up with your monthly mortgage payments, you may opt to get a refinance home mortgage loan. Regardless of the reason for your failure to make the monthly payments, a mortgage refinance is perhaps the smartest way to avert the possibility of a foreclosure. You might be wondering as to why you would seek refinancing help to save your homeownership rights. Well, read on to know how refinancing helps you avoid a foreclosure. 1. You can lower the interest rates: As you take a new mortgage loan to pay off your original home loan, you can easily lower the interest rate on the new loan. There is a rule that the interest rate on the new loan has be 2% lesser than that on the original loan. This will help you save enough money while refinancing. With lower interest rates, you can also have your monthly payments revised. 2. You

Any banks offering 0% down payment for mortgage?

Are there any banks offering 0% down payment for mortgage? The answer is no in Canada. None of the big 5 banks in Canada including Royal Bank, BMO Bank of Montreal, Scotiabank, CIBC, or TD Canada Trust offer 0% down mortgages. CMHC and other mortgage default insurance don't insure 0% down payments home loans / mortgages any longer. You may be able to find a private lender that will lend at 0% down payment for your home purchase without the insurance. Private lenders will charge you higher interest rate.