Mortgage Insurance Premiums are changing - What you need to know: The What, Who, When & How.

1. MORTGAGE
INSURANCE
PREMIUMS
ARE CHANGING
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What you need to know

2. An announcement last week made by Canada Mortgage and Housing
Corporation (CMHC) advised the mortgage insurance premiums will be
increasing effective May 2014.
I want to highlight how those changes will affect a potential borrower
looking for new financing.
Although the updated premiums are expected to have a minimal
affect on our housing market, it is still important to know the “who,
what, when and how” these changes will affect you and your
mortgage.
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3. WHO
Let’s start with “WHO” will be affected by these changes. Given mortgage
default insurance is most often required when you are purchasing a property
with less than 20% downpayment, it is those borrowers who will be most
impacted by the increase in premiums. Having said that, I believe the impact
of the increases should be quite minimal.
For those of you who don’t know exactly what the purpose of this insurance
is, it protects the lender in the event the borrower stops paying their
mortgage. The cost of this insurance is covered by the borrower in the form
of a premium that is added to the original mortgage amount requested.
The amount of this one time premium is then amortized over the life of your
mortgage which is usually up to 25 years. This recent premium increase
actually has little effect on your mortgage payments.
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4. These new rules mostly impact borrowers purchasing a home,
though will also apply if you’re refinancing and adding more
funds to your mortgage amount. Your mortgage professional
can provide more details specific to your situation.
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5. WHEN
The new mortgage default insurance premiums are effective May 1st, 2014.
Those applications with an active offer to purchase or a refinance that are
approved for insurance prior to May 1st will have the lower premiums applied
regardless of the closing date.
Be aware that the insurers do not offer “pre-approvals” so if you are
concerned with the higher premiums, take action prior to the May 1st date.
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6. WHAT
The mortgage default insurance premium is calculated as a percentage of
your total mortgage amount. The percentage applied varies based on the size
and type of your down payment, as well as type of employment income being
used in your application.
This percentage charged is WHAT is actually changing with premiums
increasing by an average of 15%.
Today if you were buying with a 5% downpayment, your insurance premium
would be around 2.75% of your mortgage amount. With the new changes
coming into effect in May, you will now pay around 3.15% of your mortgage
amount for the exact same insurance. While it is still an increase, again, the
actual impact on your affordability is not that great, see the next slides for
some examples.
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7. HOW
I’ve included a couple of potential mortgage scenarios based on a $100,000
purchase price for simplicity sake.
If you’re buying in the $200,00 range, double the numbers and if you are
buying in the $300,000 range, triple it, and so on.
Alternatively, if you want more specific figures, there are many great
calculators available on the web, just make sure they’re applicable to
Canadian mortgages.
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8. The numbers on the next few slides are based on a
$100,000 purchase price with a 25-year amortization,
based on a 5-year fixed term at 3.09%*.
*5-year fixed rate available as of March 3, 2014, O.A.C. E & O.E.
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9. 5% Downpayment
Now: $2,613 insurance premium paid with $466
monthly mortgage payments.
After May 1st: $2,993 insurance premium paid with
$468 monthly payments
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10. 10% Downpayment
Now: $2,475 insurance premium paid with $442
monthly mortgage payments.
After May 1st: $2,835 insurance premium paid with
$444 monthly payments
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11. 15% Downpayment
Now: $2,338 insurance premium paid with $417
monthly mortgage payments.
After May 1st: $2,688 insurance premium paid with
$419 monthly payments
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12. Most often, the only way to avoid paying an insurance premium is to have a
downpayment higher than 20% of your purchase price.
For those with less than a 20% downpayment, there are 3 mortgage default
insurers in Canada. So far 2 of the 3 have announced their premiums will
increase, and I’m sure we’ll shortly see the 3rd insurer announce they are
following suit making the increased premiums the new industry norm.
In my opinion, the announcement of the new mortgage insurance premiums
is minor by comparison to what could have come down the pipeline, like
increased minimum downpayment requirements or a further reduction in
mortgage amortizations. The purpose of this new change is not to deter
borrowers from buying; instead it should act as encouragement for any
borrower to contribute a larger downpayment of their own in order to pay
less of an insurance premium.
Jackie Woodward // Mortgage Broker // TMG
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MORTGAGE INSURANCE PREMIUMS ARE CHANGING

13. Jackie Woodward // Mortgage Broker // TMG
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MORTGAGE INSURANCE PREMIUMS ARE CHANGING
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