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Every day I’m still staggered by the complacency of everyday Australians and how either unwilling or ignorant they are when it comes to the interest they pay on their home or investment loans. Despite big reductions in interest rates over the past few years, a recent survey found a huge number of Australians would never…
The events of the past year have prompted a lot of current and would-be mortgage holders to consider whether they should rush to lock in their loan interest rates with a fixed product. Rates have tumbled thanks to multiple cuts by the Reserve Bank and the fixed rates on offer from banks and other lenders…
In the world of a property investor, there are almost countless measures, terms and phrases to get acquainted with that help you determine your future and current position, viability and long-term outlook. For landlords, one of the best indicators of your financial stakes is the rental yield. It’s a quick and easy snapshot of how…
There’s no doubt that securing a mortgage for a home is an involved process, with lots of paperwork, assessment and hoop-jumping. But generally speaking, you’ve got a decent deposit on a solid property that’s worth what you’re paying, no credit blemishes on your file and a good salary to meet repayments. You know how much…
Like me, you’ve probably been following the monthly median price results for property markets around Australia with keen interest. What a difference a year makes! If you cast your mind back to this time last year, we were faced with a vastly different environment – monthly declines, very low levels of activity, a blow-out in…
Buying your first home is a rite of passage for most young Australians. Having a place to call our own is a key part of our psyche so it’s little surprise that first homebuyers are prepared to put in the hard financial yards to turn that dream into a reality. Buying your first home can…
First home buyers will need to move quickly if they wish to benefit from a new government deposit scheme. The Federal Government’s First Home Loan Deposit scheme comes into effect on 1 January next year. The caveat is that there are only enough funds to help about 10,000 first home buyers, which means it really…
Imagine being paid by your bank to take out a mortgage for your next home purchase? It sounds like a pretty laughable scenario – pie in the sky sort of stuff that would never eventuate. Except it has in Denmark, where Jyske Bank is offering 10-year home loans on a -0.5 per cent interest rate….
There’s nothing quite like an interest rate cut to inspire borrowers to shop around for a better home loan deal. And why not? The Reserve Bank of Australia has taken the official cash rate to a record low of 0.75 per cent, and while banks haven’t passed on all of those cuts, they’ve slashes the…
For a while there, it seemed like just about every investor you’d speak to was tapping into their superannuation nest eggs to buy real estate. Seven or eight years ago, as major property markets in Sydney and Melbourne began their last boom cycles, there were four letters on everybody’s lips – SMSF. Self-managed super funds…
