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Understanding Housing Affordability in 2024

Posted on January 23, 2024September 22, 2025 by Gerard Buckley

Housing affordability is a hot topic in 2024, and there’s a lot of talk about how interest rates affect it. Too many people are drinking the “lower interest rate Kool-Aid” as the route to housing affordability. While many people think lowering interest rates is the key, we at Buckley Mortgage Broker Team believe they won’t […]

Buckley Mortgage Broker Takes Home Readers Choice Awards

Posted on October 12, 2023September 22, 2025 by Gerard Buckley

For Release October 12, 2023 Buckley Mortgage Broker of Mortgage Wellness, a leading mortgage broker team in Georgian Bay, is proud to announce that they have been honoured with the prestigious Readers’ Choice Awards for Best Mortgage Company for Service in Georgian Bay & Best Mortgage Broker/Advisor 2023 – marking their second consecutive win of […]

10 Moving Tips for an Easy Move

Posted on July 4, 2023September 22, 2025 by Gerard Buckley

Moving to a new place can be an exciting adventure! To ensure a smooth and enjoyable transition, here are ten packing & moving tips we’ve put together to help you have an easier time: Make a Checklist Plan ahead and create a moving checklist. By organizing your tasks and setting deadlines, you’ll stay on track […]

Press Release: Buckley Mortgage Broker Wins 2 Readers Choice Awards

Posted on October 24, 2022September 22, 2025 by Gerard Buckley

Press Release: Gerard Buckley of Buckley Mortgage Broker Wins Two Categories in the 2022 Connection & Sun Readers’ Choice Awards For Release October 20, 2022 Seasoned Professional Gerard Buckley takes home two Reader’s Choice service recognition awards in the categories of Best Mortgage Broker/Advisor and Best Mortgage Company for Service in Georgian Bay. […]

Mortgage Broker Trends for the Second Half of 2022 | Zolo

Posted on October 18, 2022September 22, 2025 by Gerard Buckley

GUEST FEATURE by Brandon Fausto – Financial Analyst at Buckley Mortgage Broker With an environment that has seen a large change in real estate pricing and mortgage rates, what might buyers see in the second half of 2022? Here’s what an Ontario-based mortgage broker has to say. First Off, Let’s Recap At the beginning […]

What Will Happen to My Mortgage Payment: The Rise of Canadian Interest Rates

Posted on September 30, 2022September 30, 2022 by Gerard Buckley

Mortgage payments up 45%! Interest rate surge is going to hurt! Anxiety and confusion increasing! One look at the top financial headlines and it’s no wonder you’re worried about your mortgage payments. Perhaps you’re fixed in and your term is about to come up for renewal. Or, maybe, you’re in a variable mortgage and the […]

Worst Decline for Housing Affordability in a Generation

Posted on August 17, 2022September 22, 2025 by Abigail Clark

Housing Affordability is Not in a Great Place We hate to be the bearers of bad news, but housing affordability in Canada worsened by 10.4 points in Q2’22, marking a fifth consecutive quarterly deterioration. The second quarter of 2022 was also the worst quarterly deterioration in over 41 years! For the first time since 1994, […]

8 Simple Steps to Take Control of Debt

Posted on June 17, 2022September 22, 2025 by Gerard Buckley

Is post-pandemic debt weighing you down? For many people, debt is an unavoidable fact of life. But the past two years of global turmoil has added financial pressure on many Canadians. According to a COVID-19 financial well-being survey conducted by the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada, over half of Canadians have been financially impacted […]

GUEST FEATURE: Good Debt vs Bad Debt and How You Can Learn the Difference

Posted on August 30, 2021September 22, 2025 by Gerard Buckley

Mortgage Agent Oakley Patterson Talks Debt — and Why it isn’t Always a Bad Thing Learning the difference between good debt and bad debt allows you to learn how to leverage money and minimize your expenses. Real estate is the best way to accomplish this and that is why it has been Oakley’s focus for […]

Canada Brings in Changes to the Mortgage Stress Test June 1st

Posted on June 1, 2021September 22, 2025 by Gerard Buckley

More change is coming for Canadians looking to get home financing. Proposed updates to the current mortgage stress test for applicants to get approval are kicking in June 1st. These changes are intended to defuse some of the unsustainable growth we’ve seen in the housing market over the past 18 months. Changes for […]