11% Need Parents’ Signature

More than a tenth of first time homebuyers nationwide now rely on parents to co-sign mortgages, the Bank of Canada said yesterday. The rate of parental co-signs nearly tripled since 2004, wrote analysts: “We asked a simple question: What if parents had not co-signed?”

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