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Private Mortgages Don’t Need More Borrowers. They Need Better-Informed Ones.
About one in six Ontario mortgages registered in 2024 came from a private lender. Demand is not this market’s problem. Understanding is. Borrowers need to know what their payments cover, what the transaction will cost and how they will repay the loan when it matures. Brokers remain responsible for explaining those obligations, but the industry has a shared interest in making that explanation more consistent. AI could make individual explanations affordable at scale. Independent oversight would be needed to make them trustworthy.
Budget 2026: Two CLA Advocacy Wins for Borrowers and Lenders
Everyone Wants to Own the Borrower. Nobody Wants to Own the Friction.
What Budget 2026 means for Canadian lenders
Credit Where Understanding Is Due
Faster Developers, Slower Companies: The AI Productivity Conundrum
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