It may come with restrictions like
stiffer mortgage penalties, limited prepayment privileges and shorter closing times (some lenders offer a lower rate when your mortgage closes in 30 to 45 days).
It may come with restrictions like
stiffer mortgage penalties, limited prepayment privileges and shorter closing times (some lenders offer a lower rate when your mortgage closes in 30 to 45 days).
Not exact matches
Many
mortgage lenders will tack on
stiff penalties for early repayment.
To show you just how
stiff the
penalties can be, Marcus Tzaferis, founder and chief economist of MorCan Direct in Toronto, estimates that a typical
penalty for breaking a $ 200,000 five - year fixed - rate
mortgage locked in at 5.9 % after two years, given today's 3 % prime rate, would be roughly $ 12,000.
Jim Murphy, CEO of CAAMP, a Canadian trade organization representing
mortgage brokers, has been actively petitioning the federal government for
stiffer penalties for
mortgage fraud, a crime that the Canadian Intelligence Services has estimated costs hundreds of millions a year.