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- On the Radar: US GDP Beats Forecasts and Canada and the U.S. Hold Rates: What does this mean for future interest rates?
- First National updates commercial lending outlook for 2025, comments on purchase transaction
- Bank of Canada keeps interest rate policy unchanged at July 2025 meeting
- On the Radar: CREA Cuts 2025 Sales Outlook as Recovery Stalls
- Verve Seniors Living - Don Mills Retirement Residence
- CMHC is making important changes to multi-unit mortgage insurance. Here is what you need to know.
- On the Radar: What July Trade Deadlines Mean for Canadian Interest Rates?
- On the Radar: Did Canada’s economy and housing market rely too heavily on immigration, and what are the risks ahead?
- On the Radar: Historic Middle East Conflicts and Their Impacts on Canadian Interest Rates
- A Return to Real Estate 101 — Resetting Expectations For Multifamily Housing
- On the Radar: The Race for the Next Fed Chair - Candidates, Process, and Potential Impact on Interest Rates
- Bank of Canada stands pat on interest rate policy at June 2025 meeting
- On the Radar: Will the Bank of Canada Cut Rates on June 4?
- On the Radar: Will Canada Keep Its AAA Rating and Hold Down Mortgage Rates?
- Jeremy Wedgbury’s first quarter report: growth but with challenges
- First National worked with Hazelview Investments to secure one of the largest CMHC-insured loans, helping bring a new approach to apartment living in Toronto to life
- On the Radar: Will the $9 trillion maturity wall in 2025 force U.S. Treasury yields higher?
- On the Radar: Can President Trump Influence the US Federal Reserve and Interest Rates?
- Building better together: How Canadian cities can seize this moment of domestic patriotism to get more housing built faster
- Bank of Canada holds fast on interest rate policy at April 2025 meeting
- Ahead of the market and ahead of schedule: How Livwell and Stubbe’s is helping fast track multi-unit housing in Niagara Falls
- Market Commentary: Tariff on, Tariff off
- Commercial financing market update from First National
- The Bank of Canada lowers its benchmark interest rate to 2.75%
- Bank of Canada opens 2025 with a 25-basis point interest rate cut
- Looking forward: First National’s first take on Canada’s multi-unit property market in 2025
- Looking back on a year of extremes in commercial real estate financing
- A distinctly Western Canadian view of the year in commercial real estate financing
- Season’s greetings and thank you from your First National team in Ontario
- Bank of Canada brings its benchmark interest rate down 50 basis points to 3.25%
- First National reports on key CMHC updates to its multi-unit mortgage loan insurance programs
- Jeremy Wedgbury’s fall 2024 update and commercial market outlook
- Bank of Canada reduces its policy interest rate for the fourth time in 2024
- Market Commentary: A catch-up and overview of the markets
- Bank of Canada reduces its benchmark interest rate to 4.25%
- A mid-year update from Scott Mizzen
- Jeremy Wedgbury’s summer update and commercial market outlook
- Bank of Canada reduces its benchmark interest rate to 4.50%
- First National comments on key CMHC policy enhancements
- Bank of Canada reduces its benchmark interest rate to 4.75%
- Jeremy Wedgbury’s spring market and business update
- Market Commentary: An overview of this week’s federal budget
- No change in Bank of Canada benchmark interest rate today
- First National’s Atlantic Canada team pushes for another billion-dollar year
- First National reports record annual commercial originations, prepares for more in ‘24
- Bank of Canada keeps its benchmark interest rate at 5.0% (for now)
- Market Commentary: Rate and GDP update and US employment numbers
- Market Commentary: An update on rates, the BoC meeting and US GDP
- New Year’s resolutions you can count on from First National’s Québec team
- Bank of Canada starts 2024 by keeping its benchmark interest rate at 5.0%
- Market Commentary: A look at this week’s inflation numbers and recent housing market activity
- Market Commentary: An overview of this week by the Treasury Guy
- Happy New Year from your commercial mortgage team at First National
- Market Commentary: Jason Ellis reviews this week’s numbers
- Market Commentary: Peak rates?
- Tax relief for new rental housing projects is on its way. Be ready with First National.
- First National reports Q2 results, leans in for the second half of 2023
- A mid-year progress report from Jeremy Wedgbury
- Celebrating 40 Billion dollars in MUA
- First National’s Damir Jesic on risk and return in Calgary’s commercial real estate market
- Market Commentary: A post-mortem of this month’s bond sell-off
- Bank of Canada holds benchmark interest rates steady
- A mid-year business update with Jeremy Wedgbury
- Bank of Canada holds benchmark interest rates steady, publishes quarterly outlook
- Key takeaways from First National’s commercial property insurance briefing
- Forward thinking with Thomas Kim
- Find out about rates and curves, February’s employment numbers and this week’s BoC announcement here
- First National reports record 2020 results, comments on four new industry developments that deserve a timely response
- Mitigate rising bond yields with First National's hedging program
- Jeremy Wedgbury’s key takeaways from today’s RealCapital Forum on alternative lending
- Did you miss the latest economic releases? Read about them here.
- A pandemic check up with Samuel Lasanté
- Market Commentary: How have rates changed this month? Find out here.
- What was the major takeaway from this week’s BoC announcement about interest rates? Find out here
- Andrew Masliwec reviews this week’s yield rates, economic news and retail sales
- First National discusses interest rates, Canada’s employment figures and real estate data
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