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‘No frills’ home loans new bank battleground

‘No frills’ home loans new bank battleground

Banks are trying to lure new customers with mortgages that lack key features, but have lower interest rates. Are these products a good deal?

  • by Clancy Yeates

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Doing it tough? Here’s where you can get genuine financial help

Doing it tough? Here’s where you can get genuine financial help

We are contending with a rising cost of living, together with an increase in our mortgage payments. However, those claiming to offer financial help if you are doing it tough are not always legitimate, so it is crucial that you can distinguish between the productive and the predatory.

  • by Nicole Pedersen-McKinnon
How to get a mortgage refinancing across the line
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How to get a mortgage refinancing across the line

If you have held a home loan for more than two years, it’s time to consider refinancing your mortgage.

  • by Nicole Pedersen-McKinnon
Why falling property prices are actually bad news for first home buyers

Why falling property prices are actually bad news for first home buyers

Falling house prices may not be the blessing for first-time buyers it seems, with higher interest rates reducing their borrowing capacity more than any likely decline.

  • by John Collett
How high will interest rates go?

How high will interest rates go?

Financial markets are tipping the official cash rate – now at 0.35 per cent – to hit close to 3 per cent by the end of the year.

  • by Jessica Irvine
‘How to make three years’ salary in three days’

‘How to make three years’ salary in three days’

Some 80 per cent of Australians pay more in monthly repayments by choosing to keep their mortgage with one of our four leading banks, rather than switching to one of the bank minnows for a better interest-rate deal.

  • by Nicole Pedersen-McKinnon
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Newbie homeowners will be hit hardest by the rate hike

Newbie homeowners will be hit hardest by the rate hike

Many mortgage holders have built up savings and some breathing space thanks to excess mortgage repayments, but those who entered the property market recently are most vulnerable to higher interest rates.

  • by John Collett
Cheaper minnow mortgage lenders taking business from big banks
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Cheaper minnow mortgage lenders taking business from big banks

Big banks are losing out to smaller rivals in the highly competitive mortgage market as those refinancing become inclined to shop around.

  • by John Collett
Interest-rate rises are coming: is it time to fix your home loan?

Interest-rate rises are coming: is it time to fix your home loan?

When official interest rates rise – as most economists expect to happen on the first Tuesday in June – about a million borrowers who have taken out mortgages over the past decade, will never have felt the pinch of a rate hike.

  • by Jessica Irvine
The premium suburbs now in reach of first home buyers

The premium suburbs now in reach of first home buyers

First home buyers will have many more options, including previously scarce free-standing houses, when the purchase price caps for the government’s low-deposit scheme increase on July 1.

  • by John Collett
Why negative gearing has gone the way of the dinosaur

Why negative gearing has gone the way of the dinosaur

With record-low interest rates and reasonably high property investment yields, negative gearing is all but impossible.

  • by Noel Whittaker