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Rising water: Quebec lender ending new mortgages in flood zones ’just the beginning’ (montrealgazette.com)
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Desjardins Group announced as of Feb. 1 it would no longer offer new mortgages for properties in “0-20 year” flood zones — where there is a five per cent chance of flooding in any given year — because of what it called the rising effect of climate change.

There are some exceptions: buyers can get financing for up to 65 per cent a home’s selling price if the previous owner had a Desjardins mortgage and the property has protective measures to prevent flooding. But the company’s decision has left mayors of low-lying towns worried that homeowners will be left with properties that no one will buy or that are massively devalued.

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[-] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago

Yeah, the houses will not be "undervalued"

Houses on a floodplain were massively overvalued before, because no one ever thought about the risk. This is just putting them to their actual real value.

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