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4 Ways To Slash Your Home Loan Rate

personOtto Dargan access_timeAugust 28, 2016

4 Ways To Slash Your Home Loan Rate (And Save Thousands) People love a good bargain when it comes to clothes and gadgets but what about your home loan? Even with a tiny 0.30% discount you can save more than $30,000 in repayments! Do we have your attention...

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How Much Of Your Home Loan Repayments Are Interest?

personOtto Dargan access_timeSeptember 18, 2015

How much of your home loan repayments are actually reducing your mortgage balance and how much is going to your bank as interest and administration fees? Unless you’re paying interest only, it can be a little tricky trying to figure out the exact amount of interest that...

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7 Essential Tips For First Home Buyers

personOtto Dargan access_timeAugust 16, 2015

Is now the right time to buy a property? In reality, it’s impossible to predict what the Australian property market will do so perhaps a better question to ask is whether you’re ready for a home loan. For example, how much money do you need to purchase the property,...

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When Land Used To Be Free In Australia

personOtto Dargan access_timeJuly 3, 2015

Did you know that there was a time when Australians were given acres of land for free by the government? How times have changed! When you’re not paying a premium for prime real estate in a good location, you’ll also need to cover the costs of stamp duty, legal costs,...

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Cadmans Cottage: The Story Of The Oldest House In Sydney

personOtto Dargan access_timeJune 26, 2015

Australia was discovered less than 250 years ago and only became a nation in 1901, making us one of the youngest western nations in the world. Luckily for us though, our youth means there are still remnants of our colonial past scattered across the country, particularly...

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The Fascinating Evolution Of Australian Home Loans

personOtto Dargan access_timeJune 22, 2015

Getting a job, saving a deposit and applying for a home loan to buy your own property is an Australian institution. Today, around 60.8% or $1.5 trillion of total national credit is used for mortgage finance and, in the month of April 2015 alone, a total of 19,045 residential...

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9 Myths About Home Loans Exposed

personOtto Dargan access_timeJune 19, 2015

Getting a home loan is a life-changing decision and nothing makes it harder to take the leap than trying to sort home loan fact from fiction. From the difference of making monthly repayments compared to fortnightly repayments, to the actual cost of using a mortgage broker,...

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Is A Fixed Home Loan Actually The Right Choice?

personOtto Dargan access_timeJune 17, 2015

On 6 May 2015, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) cut the official cash rate by 25 basis points to a new historical low of 2.00%. This came as a welcome surprise to borrowers as the cash rate was cut from 2.50% to 2.25% just four months earlier in February. With property...

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8 Powerful Reasons You Need A Mortgage Broker

personOtto Dargan access_timeMay 29, 2015

More than a third of Australians intending to take out a home loan said they would use a mortgage broker over going to a bank directly and this figure is likely to rise as the next generation of homeowners begin to enter the property market. That’s according to the 2015...

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Have You Answered These 8 Home Loan Questions?

personOtto Dargan access_timeApril 16, 2015

Along with getting married and starting a family, buying your first home is a major milestone in life. There are a lot of things to consider including where you want to live and what type of property you want to live in. That’s the fun stuff. What a lot of people don’t...

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