{"id":688,"date":"2026-02-26T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mannmortgages.com\/blog\/?p=688"},"modified":"2026-02-26T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T09:00:00","slug":"will-the-policy-interest-rate-in-canada-go-down-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mannmortgages.com\/blog\/?p=688","title":{"rendered":"Will the Policy Interest Rate in Canada Go Down in 2026?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-zmyer\">\n<div class=\"video-frame-zmyer\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\"\n                src=\"https:\/\/www.roomvu.com\/agent\/embed\/paul-mann-4\/policy-canada-down\"\n                frameborder=\"0\"\n                allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"\n                allowfullscreen><br \/>\n        <\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"video-description-zmyer\">\n<p>The Bank of Canada policy rate sits at 2.25%, with inflation trends remaining the primary driver of future decisions.<\/p>\n<p>Current forecasts suggest rates will stay mostly stable through 2026, reflecting cautious, data-dependent central bank policy.<\/p>\n<p>Some projections allow a modest increase toward 2.50% late in 2026, still within the lower neutral range.<\/p>\n<p>Housing costs, global conditions, and inflation control will limit aggressive moves, keeping Canadian interest rates relatively steady.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bank of Canada policy rate sits at 2.25%, with inflation trends remaining the primary driver of future decisions. Current forecasts suggest rates will stay mostly stable through 2026, reflecting cautious, data-dependent central bank policy. Some projections allow a modest increase toward 2.50% late in 2026, still within the lower neutral range. Housing costs, global [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mannmortgages.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mannmortgages.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mannmortgages.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mannmortgages.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mannmortgages.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mannmortgages.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":690,"href":"https:\/\/www.mannmortgages.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions\/690"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mannmortgages.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mannmortgages.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mannmortgages.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mannmortgages.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}