Strategy with mortgage
I'm close to signing a new mortgage, here the data:
- Quebec
- Best offer: TD @ 4.04% 3y + Instant access to margin on +0.2% which today makes it 4.65%
- Old house sold: 400k (mortgage free)
- New house: 650k
- Savings: 150k (TFSA)
Right now I'm doing it simple: 20% down-payment, 4.04%, 3y/25y and reinvest the 400k+ back on XEQT (restore tfsa and then non-reg). Seems somewhat OK, but taxes on non-reg may make it, at least early on, not great gains over the mortgage expenses.
But, I'm considering this alternative: 550k downpayment, so mortgage 100k, and access the instant margin to reclaim ~400k at 4.46% and then invest on XEQT. Which, it seems, would give me some tax break on the interest from the margin debt, right? Which means, I could reclaim back 2.23% yearly?
What am I missing here? Which is the best strategy?
Posted Jan 27, 2026, 1:44 PM UTC