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Mortgage interest costs soar at rates we haven’t seen since the 1990s — stoking fears of another crash

Canadian mortgage interest costs in October increased at a rate not seen since the 1990s housing crash, indicating troubling headwinds for the country’s real estate sector.

In October, interest costs increased year-over-year by 11.4 per cent, the biggest increase since February 1991, when it was 11.7 per cent, according to recent report from Statistics Canada.

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