Ottawa real estate industry watching anticipated interest rate cut closely

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There’s anticipation of a further rate cut from the Bank of Canada this week due to plummeting inflation and back-to-back interest rate cuts this year.

A new home is shown for sale in a housing development in Ottawa on Tuesday, July 14, 2020. to speed up the pace of interest rate cuts and lower its policy rate by half a percentage point this week.

"I think Canadians have a lot to be happy about moving forward when it comes to interest rates. You know, we got to think about the fact that we're hitting the five year anniversary of the pandemic and of course, the pandemic also spell ultra low interest rates. So we're going to see a lot of Canadians have their mortgage come up for renewal in the summer and fall that locked in at 1.5 per cent in 2020," said Napolitano.

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