This Week's Mortgage Market Update Contains:

• Condos drive Canada's housing start surge
• Why the Bank of Canada plays coy on interest rates
• Canada Housing Bubble Concern Shown in Insurer Query: Mortgages

This Week's Quotation:

“One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything. ” - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)

This Week's Highlights:

• Housing starts surged in April
• Canada generated 82,300 new jobs in March
• Canadian core and headline inflation rates dipped in March

This Week's Mortgage Market Update Contains:

• Jay Bryan: Rising rates, if they happen, will be good news
• Most Canadian home buyers would avoid bidding war: study
• What will make the housing boom go bust? 'Greed'

This Week's Quotation:

“Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe.” - Robert Service (1874 - 1958)

This Week's Highlights:

• Housing starts increased in February
• 2,800 jobs cut in February, unemployment rate slips to 7.4%
• Canadian consumer prices were 2.5% higher than in January 2011

This Week's Mortgage Market Update Contains:

• Toronto condos the 'hot spot in Canadian home building'
• Canadians slash spending to tackle debt
• Tidal wave of foreclosed homes about to flood U.S. market

This Week's Quotation:

“Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.” - Henry George (1839 - 1897)

This Week's Highlights:

• Housing starts increased in February
• 2,800 jobs cut in February, unemployment rate slips to 7.4%
• Canadian consumer prices were 2.5% higher than in January 2011

This Week's Mortgage Market Update Contains:

• Real estate: Ontario, B.C. at 'top of our list of concerns'
• Shorter terms for mortgages may be in Ottawa's new budget
• Survey: US home prices declined in 16 of 19 cities in January, despite pickup in home sales

This Week's Quotation:

“Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.” - David Rockefeller (1915 - )

This Week's Highlights:

• Housing starts increased in February
• 2,800 jobs cut in February, unemployment rate slips to 7.4%
• Canadian consumer prices were 2.5% higher than in January 2011

This Week's Mortgage Market Update Contains:

• New take on household debt: Families have 'big cushion'
• Bank regulator targets mortgage disclosure
• U.S. existing home sales dip in February

This Week's Quotation:

“Don't aim at success - the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue... as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a course greater than oneself.” - Viktor Frankl

This Week's Highlights:

• Housing starts increased in February
• 2,800 jobs cut in February, unemployment rate slips to 7.4%
• Canadian consumer prices were 2.5% higher than in January 2011

This Week's Mortgage Market Update Contains:

• Borrowers win clarified penalty terms
• Low-rate mortgage wars are on
• Why some U.S. housing markets do better than others

This Week's Quotation:

“Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.” - Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)

This Week's Highlights:

• Housing starts increased in February
• 2,800 jobs cut in February, unemployment rate slips to 7.4%
• Canadian consumer prices were 2.5% higher than in January 2011