Can you make extra home loan repayments?
Making extra repayments on your home loan can be a clever financial strategy. Investing your extra cash into your home can speed up your loan’s life cycle, with the added benefit of saving money [...]
You know where you want to live but it’s out of your price range – what can you do?
With the current Sydney property market it is easy to feel overwhelmed and disheartened, especially if you have a very clear idea of where you want to live and you are being priced out of the [...]
Planning on building your dream home? Do you know how to get your finances sorted?
Whether you are buying land for an immediate build, as an investment or for a ‘one day I will build and live here’ dream, a vacant-land purchase can be financed by a range of mortgages. If you [...]
How a guarantor can help you secure finance
When you’re desperately trying to save up a deposit for a home and just see the prices of property climbing and climbing, it’s difficult to remain patient. But there is another way: a guarantor [...]
5 things people forget when buying their first home
About to buy your first home? Then there is a very good chance that you are feeling a little out of your depth and unsure about what needs to be done. Even if you were on top of things when you [...]
Heading to an auction tomorrow? Are you mentally prepared?
‘Buying at auction can be a psychological roller coaster. So how do you balance out the adrenaline and nerves, and survive the drama while not letting your FOMO get the better of your rational [...]
How RBA rate changes affect your interest rate
With the RBA setting the official cash rate at all-time lows, it’s a good time to work out how this impacts the interest rate on your home loan and whether you are getting a good deal or not. [...]
NAB to raise interest rates – with investors to feel the pinch more.
From next Friday, NAB’s residential investment home loan variable rate will increase from 5.55 per cent to 5.8 per cent per annum. NAB chief operating officer Anthony Cahill said given strong [...]
We are predicting another weekend of strong results
The talk of the bubble and the burst continues, but each weekend we continue to see strong results. With the RBA keeping interest rates on hold, we don’t predict this weekend will be any [...]
Are interest rates going to rise?
Finder.com.au survyed 38 experts and economists and all of them believe the RBA will hold the cash rate at 1.5 per cent when they meet today. However the majority (90%) of these experts also [...]