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Home & Investment Loans | 5th June 2025
Mortgage market shake-up as lenders cut interest rates

More than 65 lenders, including the big four banks, have cut their interest rates following the ...

Home & Investment Loans | 29th May 2025
RBA reveals positive mortgage data

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has found “the vast majority of borrowers would remain able ...

Home & Investment Loans | 22nd May 2025
Inflation keeps trending down

TThe latest inflation data, which were recorded before the USA’s recent series of tariff ...

Home & Investment Loans | 20th May 2025
RBA reduces cash rate to 3.85%

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) reduced the official interest rate by 25 basis points to ...

Home & Investment Loans | 15th May 2025
Building cost growth hits 15-year low

Residential construction costs rose just 0.4% in the March quarter, which was the lowest ...

Home & Investment Loans | 8th May 2025
Investors weathering cash flow storm

Surveys of property investors have confirmed that although investing can be a fantastic way to ...

Home & Investment Loans | 23rd April 2025
How prices, rents and rates have changed over the past five years

Five years on from the start of the covid-19 pandemic, the property market is in a very different ...

Home & Investment Loans | 16th April 2025
Banks offering special deals to certain professionals

Good news if you’re a professional or essential worker – some lenders offer LMI waivers to ...

Home & Investment Loans | 9th April 2025
Building approvals hit two-year high

Homebuilding approvals are heading in the right direction, opening up the possibility of more ...

Home & Investment Loans | 1st April 2025
RBA Keeps Cash Rate at 4.10%

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) left the cash rate unchanged at 4.10% at its second monetary ...

Home & Investment Loans | 26th March 2025
Research exposes big gap between average and lowest variable rates

The gap between the average variable interest rate and lowest variable rate on our comparison ...

Home & Investment Loans | 11th March 2025
More consumers using loans to purchase cars, holidays & whitegoods

There was a sharp rise in the number of consumers taking out car loans in 2024, as motorists ...

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