Path A — break & replace
Retire the existing first mortgage and write a new one up to 80% of value. Maximum proceeds and one clean payment — at the price of the exit penalty and today's rate on the whole balance.
Real estate equity is the least expensive capital most clients will ever have access to — and the least productive while it sits still. This program pulls it out cleanly, at mortgage pricing, to fund the next investment: a property, a portfolio position, a business opportunity, a private deal. Done with the right path and the right timing, the cost surprises people; done carelessly, the penalty and fees eat the point of it.
Retire the existing first mortgage and write a new one up to 80% of value. Maximum proceeds and one clean payment — at the price of the exit penalty and today's rate on the whole balance.
Leave a good existing rate untouched and add a second mortgage behind it — to 75% combined value on detached homes and townhomes, 65% on condos. No penalty, faster close, interest-only payments; a higher rate on the added slice only.
Not just the rate. The honest comparison is cost per $100,000 raised — penalty, fees, legals and appraisal included — for both paths, side by side, plus the at-renewal case. That's exactly what the calculator below does, with the same engine the desk uses. When the numbers favour waiting, or favour the smaller second over the glamorous refinance, the client hears that plainly.
When the borrowed money's direct use is earning investment income, and the tracing is clean — generally yes, which is what makes this the funding leg of the Smith Manoeuvre and debt-swap strategies. A dedicated facility (never mixed with personal spending) and the accountant's sign-off are the standing requirements.
That's the mirror question, and it has its own tool: Borrow vs. Sell weighs the capital-gains tax and foregone growth of selling against the carrying cost of borrowing. Often borrowing wins; when it doesn't, we say so.
Path B is the speed lane — no discharge of the existing first, so a well-papered second can move quickly when an opportunity has a deadline. Path A moves at refinance pace. Time-sensitive files are exactly the kind this desk exists to move without cutting corners.
Path B doesn't touch it — rate, term and payment stay exactly as they were. Path A replaces it deliberately, which is only worth doing when the all-in math says so. Choosing which is the desk's job, shown with the working.
Anonymized case studies for this program are being prepared from real funded files — nothing invented, ever. The caps and fee schedule quoted here are the desk's published figures; the calculator uses the desk's own verified engine.
If a client's next opportunity is waiting on capital that's parked in a property, both paths are worth pricing before they liquidate anything.
Arrange a confidential introductionRamin Hallaji, Principal — licensed in British Columbia (BCFSA) and Alberta, Dominion Lending Centres Group · 778-879-6768 · ramin@privatewealthfinancing.ca
Information, not advice, and not an offer of financing. Loan-to-value caps reflect the desk's published residential schedule for major BC markets and vary by property, location and lender; fees and legals shown in the calculator are published defaults confirmed per file; interest deductibility depends on use and tracing confirmed by the client's accountant. All lending subject to approval, verification, and property valuation. Private Wealth Financing arranges mortgage financing only.