Fixed 5 year mortgages in Canada have stayed at historically low levels for 5 years now. The present rate for a 5 year is 2.59% for people with very good credit.
At least one lender has indicated that they will be raising rates by 10 basis points on Thursday July 2nd. Others may follow.
The spring mortgage rate wars have started early this year. Rates had been going up and Royal Bank announced they were raising rates from 2.94% to 3.04% for a 5 year fixed rate when some monoline mortgage companies dropped their rates from 2.69 to 2.59%. This week rates continued to drop to 2.54%
Variable rate mortgages have continued to lose their discounts with National Bank announced that the discount was disappearing this week and now sits at Prime -0.