Published On: June 15th, 2021

New stress test for all mortgages now in effect

The Department of Finance has announced that insured mortgages will have the same stress test that OSFI recently introduced for uninsured mortgages. The stress test for both will be the greater of the borrower’s mortgage contract rate plus 2% or 5.25%, up from the current 4.79%, which means qualifying has become slightly harder for some.

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