This is not your parent’s mortgage!!  We have been well trained by our parents who have been strongly influenced by the banks to want to quickly pay off our mortgages.  Back then, the price of homes was substantially lower and the interest rates were astronomically higher.  Our environment has changed.  We now have these big […]

With all the news we have seen on the election, I thought I would sum it up from a mortgage industry perspective. What the liberal win means for your mortgage: We will see the continuation of the First Time Home Buyers’ Incentive. Check out the link for more information here:  https://www.placetocallhome.ca/fthbi/first-time-homebuyer-incentive Property Transfer Tax modifications […]

6 Questions you need to ask yourself before taking the leap.   Angela Calla is a 15 year award-winning woman of influence and mortgage expert. Alongside her team, passionately assisting mortgage holders get the best mortgage, and educating them on “The Mortgage Show” on CKNW for over a decade and through her best-selling book “The […]

Tri-Cities business awards nominees named Nine nominated for business leader and nine for young professional Staff writer / Tri-City News Nine nominations for business leader of the year and nine for young professional of the year are up for the 2019 Tri-Cities Chamber of Commerce Business Excellence Awards. Individuals nominated for business leader are Angela […]

Angela Calla Contributes to the NEW Book Dynamic Women® Success Secrets to Empower & Inspire! Angela Calla, as an accomplished businesswoman, has teamed up with Diane Rolston (Coach, Speaker and CEO of Dynamic Women®) and several other Top Thought Leaders, Experts and a select group of leading entrepreneurs and professionals as a Contributor to the […]

If you’re credit challenged but want to get into the housing market, it can be a tough road to hoe. But improving your credit to a point where a lender will give you chance, is very doable. First, I won’t bore you with the detailed minutia of credit scores. Basically, what you need to know […]

If you’re in a mortgage that’s coming up for renewal in the coming months and you’re considering just staying with your current lender, you wouldn’t be alone. According to the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation’s (CMHC) Residential Mortgage Industry Report released in the summer, in 2018, the number of mortgage renewals with the same lender […]

I have really enjoyed seeing homebuyers getting into the market over the last year. You never know the bottom until you are seeing it in the rear view mirror.  It looks like we are in recovery mode. Certainly a market cycle I have seen before and predicted at end of summer for Global News. https://www.westerninvestor.com/news/british-columbia/bottomed-out-metro-vancouver-home-sales-leap-46-3-per-cent-1.23964418?utm_source=Western+Investor+Newsletter&utm_campaign=07e0a8cd95-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_01_03_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_9b89d35e1e-07e0a8cd95-96588301 […]

Here are some of the speaking points that Angela touched on during her interview on the Charles Adler Show, played nationally, yesterday: The current foreclosure rate is less than .025% and CMHC pays millions of dollars in dividends to the government each and every year.  They have enough money to pay out every single mortgage […]

 https://globalnews.ca/news/5939018/andrew-scheer-mortgages-housing/ When the federal government under the Liberals made all the changes to the mortgage rules, they did it with ZERO consultation from the industry. Our industry immediately detected, the gaps and collateral damage it was going to do to Canadians by making it harder for them to buy a home.  The Conservative Party actually […]