Wayne Mah

Senior Mortgage Planner

  • How To Finance A Former Grow-Op Property

    Living here in beautiful British Columbia has some definite perks. The mild climate, gorgeous scenary, and for those that like to partake…B.C. bud. Now I am not getting into the debate over pot use but wanted to detail the steps required to purchase a property that was a former grow-op. In B.C. there seems to

  • Bank of Canada Prime Rate Rises – So It Begins

    The Bank of Canada raised the Bank Rate by 0.25% today. It is now at 0.50%. This is the first increase by the central bank since July 2007. With this rise I expect all major lending institutions to rate their Prime Rates by an equivalent amount – from 2.25% to 2.50%. This means that if

  • UPDATE: Strata Duplexes Okay Again

    CMHC has just announced that they will now be insuring mortgages on “non-conforming stratas” again. This reverses an earlier decision (see previous post). A requirement is that title insurance must be taken out. This is super news for both buyers and sellers. Now buyers can go as low as 5% down again! No updates from