Gary Mauris with Jim Flaherty
I am lucky to now be working for a company that just recently pretty much swept the Canadian Mortgage Awards on June the 1st, 2012.
We won the big 3 awards for best in advertising, marketing and the National Network of the Year award. We did very well in some of the individual awards as well. I am keen on winning the Community Service Award within the next 2 years and that is one of my major goals.
Every month Gary will update us on internal news within our company, mainly to do with current mortgage news and our intranet and how we can deliver better, more efficient service to our clients. This has been the biggest bonus for working with this company. He will personally answer back any emails or calls you have for him within minutes. Not many major successful companies can say that they have that as an option.
Some recent news in the mortgage industry was yesterday, Tuesday June 5th where Mark Carney left the policy rate at 1% which went unchanged for now the longest time since the 1950s. With the ongoing developments in Europe, we do not foresee it increasing in the near term. The next meeting is July 17th. The Canadian housing market is stable, with condo sales softening mainly in the Vancouver and Toronto. We are seeing more Canadian money flowing into US investments and not so much the housing market in terms of portfolio diversification. We are seeing a later then usual spring market but it is pretty busy and we see the momentum carrying through June, July and August.
This was just a short update that will be shared once a month with the power calls. I hope to explain more about Gary in the future and maybe have him blog sometime.
