Some highlights of June realestate activity:
- CMHC lowered buyers’ required credit score to 600 from 680, and adjusted the maximum amount of debt-to-income that buyers can carry.
- Market share of CMHC has dropped to 23% — the lowest share in decades
- Sagen(formerly Genworth) and Canada Guarantee shares have grown to 44% and 33% because of CMHC’s
- This is just one corporation trying to make more profit nothing to do with affordable housing or helping buyers.
- Its mostly the lenders that choose the insurer and that market share might stay consistent for sometime.
Following is the June sales activity in Greater Toronto Area’s major cities: