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Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation’s First-Time Home Buyer Incentive program ending March 21

If you were hoping to make use of the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation’s (CMHC) First-Time Home Buyer Incentive (FHBI) program, your window to do so is closing. The CMHC announced last week ...
The Globe and Mail

Why a program for first-time home buyers fizzled in Toronto and Vancouver

Fewer than 400 households in the Toronto, Vancouver and Victoria areas have received financial assistance from a federal program for first-time home buyers, despite changes that were intended to make ...
CBC.ca

Yukon premier announces first-time home buyers program offering low-interest loans

Yukon Premier Ranj Pillai announced a new first-time home buyers program on Wednesday to help with down payments. Pillai says the aim of the program is to keep Yukoners in the territory and "entice" ...
The Globe and Mail

Good riddance to the first-time home buyer program. There’s a simpler way to help buyers, especially those without family money

Last week Ottawa cancelled the complex and illogical First-Time Home Buyer Incentive. The federal program was riddled with flaws and it not only didn’t help, but it actually left Canadians who ...
CBC.ca

Many first-time homebuyers say they can't access B.C.'s tax-exemption benefit

Gabriel Haney is looking to buy a one-bedroom apartment in Langley or Burnaby. The 26-year-old from Langley says he hopes to take advantage of B.C.'s First Time Home Buyers' Program, an incentive that ...
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Canada slashing taxes on first home purchases and here's how it works

Prime Minister Mark Carney is fulfilling one of the key promises the Liberal party made during the recent federal election campaign, specifically relating to eliminating the federal five per cent ...