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Focused on personal financial literacy and discussion of topics related to real estate investment, home financing and wealth building with a casual and professional approach to expose opportunities and deal with misconceptions in the marketplace.
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After testifying before the Senate of Canada, Vince breaks down the key findings from the report Out of Reach: Unlocking Canada’s Housing Affordability Crisis and explains why government policy, development charges, approval delays, and mortgage stress test rules are making housing more expensive for Canadians. For more information, be sure to visit https://www.owlmortgage.ca/ & https://wealthbuilders.realpm.ca/
The next 12–24 months in Canada won’t just test the housing market — they’ll test households. This week, Vince highlights how mortgage renewals are hitting at 4–6% after years of ultra-low rates. Insolvencies are rising at the fastest pace since 2008. Credit stress is spreading. Housing supply remains constrained and rent is climbing. For more information, be sure to visit https://www.owlmortgage.ca/ & https://wealthbuilders.realpm.ca/
This week, Vince breaks down the real differences between working with a mortgage broker and going directly to a traditional bank. He challenges common misconceptions and explains how the right advice — not just the lowest rate — can save you thousands over the life of your mortgage. For more information, be sure to visit https://www.owlmortgage.ca/ & https://wealthbuilders.realpm.ca/
The truth about Canada’s housing market isn’t in the headlines. If you’re waiting for the Bank of Canada to slash interest rates and save affordability… you may be waiting a long time. This week, Vince breaks down why major rate cuts may not arrive anytime soon, what the latest Labour Force Survey is really revealing about employment quality, and how rising mortgage renewals, household debt, and EI claims are adding pressure across Canada. For more information, be sure to visit https://...
This week, Vince breaks down what must change before for him to turn bullish on Canadian real estate—and why confidence matters more than interest rates. Vinces dives into employment stability, disposable income, debt levels, mortgage delinquencies, and why government “affordability indexes” don’t reflect real household stress. For more information, be sure to visit https://www.owlmortgage.ca/ & https://wealthbuilders.realpm.ca/
Imagine losing your home — not because you missed a payment, but because your lender panicked. That’s exactly what’s happening right now in Canada’s private lending market. This week, Vince exposes a disturbing trend: private lenders refusing mortgage renewals on loans being paid exactly as agreed — no arrears, no defaults — simply because property values dipped and risk tolerance disappeared. This isn’t risk management. It’s predatory lending behavior in a stressed housing market. For more...
Mortgage renewals in Canada are becoming a breaking point — not just financially, but emotionally. For many homeowners, higher payments aren’t just a budget issue. They trigger stress, shame, and sleepless nights — especially when the numbers suddenly stop working at renewal time. This week, Vince challenges the most dangerous advice in today’s market: the narrative - “Just hang on.” Sometimes waiting makes things worse. Options shrink, interest compounds, and stress builds. Selling, restruct...
If you want to know where the economy is really heading, don’t watch headlines — watch delinquencies. In every slowdown, the first warning isn’t layoffs, bankruptcies, or market crashes; it’s quiet, rising missed payments across mortgages, credit cards, and auto loans. This week, Vince explains why delinquencies don’t predict pain but confirm financial stress that’s already happening, why rate cuts often fail to relieve cash-flow pressure, and what always comes next when banks react late and ...
Confidence in Canada’s housing market can’t be manufactured when employment feels uncertain, debt servicing is rising, savings buffers are thin, and household stress is real. Using real-world examples of mortgage renewals and first-time buyers, Vince breaks down why hesitation — not panic — is the real problem, and why “good numbers on paper” don’t equal financial safety. This isn’t negativity or fear-mongering — it’s math, and until employment confidence improves and debt pressure eases...
If interest rates were the real problem… rate cuts would have fixed this by now. THEY DIDNT'! Because Canada doesn’t actually have a housing crisis — it has a cashflow crisis… and no one wants to say it out loud. But I WILL. Rate cuts only slow the bleeding. This isn’t about irresponsible spending. It’s about math turning against households. Groceries, childcare, taxes, insurance, utilities, debt payments — these costs don’t get cheaper just because rates dip. For more information, be sure to...
Toronto is not “evolving.” It’s breaking. This week, Vince exposes how failed city leadership, reckless spending, and zero accountability have pushed Toronto into visible decline — unsafe streets, unusable transit, exploding homelessness, record food bank use, and nonstop property tax hikes crushing homeowners. City Hall celebrates “progress” while outcomes collapse. For more information, be sure to visit https://www.owlmortgage.ca/ & https://wealthbuilders.realpm.ca/
What if the housing market isn’t “springing back” — but quietly breaking down? And the only people pretending otherwise… are the ones who need your commission cheque? This week, Vince breaks down why the real estate market in 2026 is NOT rebounding, despite what agents, influencers, and headlines want you to believe. It isn’t fear — it’s fundamentals. For more information, be sure to visit https://www.owlmortgage.ca/ & https://wealthbuilders.realpm.ca/
The best opportunity for first-time homebuyers in over a decade is happening right now — and almost nobody is talking about it? This isn’t a balanced market. It’s a buyer’s market hiding in plain sight. Prices have retreated, inventory is rising, sellers are under pressure, and qualified first-time buyers now hold real leverage. While most realtors won’t admit it, many sellers — especially those who bought at the peak, renovated on credit, or renewed at higher rates — are hurting and quietly ...
Toronto isn’t declining by accident — it’s being mismanaged, and homeowners, renters, and buyers are paying the price. Rising crime, unreliable transit, gridlocked traffic, higher property taxes, and weaker city services aren’t just quality-of-life issues — they directly affect housing affordability, property values, mortgage risk, and long-term economic confidence across the GTA. For more information, be sure to visit https://www.owlmortgage.ca/ & https://wealthbuilders.realpm.ca/
Canada is facing a productivity crisis — and the consequences are showing up in your paycheck, your mortgage, and the price of your home. Canada is facing a productivity crisis — and the consequences are showing up in your paycheck, your mortgage, and the price of your home. For more than a decade, our federal strategy has been immigration-first, productivity-last. Instead of investing in innovation, competitiveness, automation, and efficiency, we’ve relied on population growth to prop u...
Canada is NOT “stabilizing.” It’s suffocating... And the new reports from RE/MAX, the media, and even the government are straight-up gaslighting Canadians who are drowning in debt, soaring payments, and now—massive layoffs like Algoma Steel cutting 1,000 workers. What does this mean for Canadian Homeowners and the future of the economy? For more information, be sure to visit https://www.owlmortgage.ca/ & https://wealthbuilders.realpm.ca/
What if the biggest threat to Canada’s economy isn’t inflation, interest rates, or even the housing crisis… but a government finally admitting the math doesn’t work — while pretending the old tools can still fix it? This week, Vince breaks down Mark Carney’s first federal budget and what it REALLY means for homeowners, buyers, and the future of Canada’s economy. For more information, be sure to visit https://www.owlmortgage.ca/ & https://wealthbuilders.realpm.ca/
I just did what most Canadians wish they could — I went to Ottawa and spoke directly to the Senate about Canada’s broken housing system. And they listened. This week I share some of the key topics I discussed in front of the Standing Senate Committee on Banking, Commerce and the Economy — a room full of sharp minds trying to untangle the housing mess Canada has engineered over the past 20 years. I opened with what every Canadian already feels: affordability isn’t strained — it’s shattered. I ...
In Canada, the mortgage stress test—brought in to protect homeowners—is now punishing them. It’s hijacked the very foundation of Canadian lending: the Five C’s of Credit (Character, Capacity, Capital, Credit, Collateral). Today, none of that matters. One algorithm decides your future. Welcome to 2025: Where the “Computer says NO.” This week, Vince exposes how the OSFI stress test and Bank of Canada policies are trapping responsible Canadians in Mortgage Jail — forcing them into alternative le...
Canada’s household debt crisis is spiralling out of control — and nobody’s talking about it. With over $2.9 trillion in household debt, Canadians are now spending 17 cents of every dollar just to cover interest. Mortgages are resetting, credit lines are maxed out, and families are suffocating under higher payments. For more information, be sure to visit https://www.owlmortgage.ca/ & https://wealthbuilders.realpm.ca/
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