interest rates
“Each month that passes, roughly two per cent of mortgage holders face renewal at sharply higher interest rates,” Royce Mendes, managing director and head of macro strategy at Desjardins, wrote in a Sept. 19 note to clients. Given the steep rises in payments, banks and other lenders have been responding in part by stretching out amortizations to reduce monthly payments.More than 46 per cent of Canadian mortgages had payment schedules longer than 25 years as of the second quarter, according to the Bank of Canada, an amount that’s been steadily rising from around 32 per cent in the summer of 2020.
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