Mortgage Playbook · Health services professionals

Healthcare Playbook

Health Services Home Advantage Program — your guide to unlocking homeownership.

Shift work shouldn’t make the mortgage harder.

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What this playbook covers

The Healthcare Playbook is written for the people who keep Alberta’s health system running: nurses, paramedics, lab and imaging technologists, care aides, allied health and the administrative teams behind them. It explains the Health Services Home Advantage Program and how lenders treat the realities of healthcare pay — shift differentials, overtime, casual and part-time positions, and multiple employers.

You get the complete mortgage roadmap, the four qualifying pillars, financing options from conventional to insured, a plain breakdown of costs and a payment anatomy, plus a terminology index and budget tracker to make the next steps concrete.

What’s inside

  • What the Health Services Home Advantage Program is and who qualifies
  • Your mortgage roadmap from discovery call to closing
  • Getting qualified: income (including overtime and shift pay), credit, down payment, debts
  • Financing options: conventional, insured and alternative lending
  • Breaking down costs and the anatomy of a payment
  • Terminology index and monthly budget tracker
  • Your next steps

A look inside

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Good questions

Usually yes, once there is a two-year history on your T4s or pay stubs. The playbook explains how it is averaged, and we know which lenders are most generous with healthcare income.
Casual and part-time income can be used with a track record, typically two years. Multiple positions can be combined. We document it the way lenders want to see it.
No. It covers Covenant Health, Recovery Alberta, Primary Care Networks, private clinics, pharmacies, dental offices and any other health services employer in Alberta.
It matches you with lenders and products that fit healthcare careers, including competitive rates and flexible down payments. We show you the full offer, never just a headline number.

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