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Home & Investment Loans | 9th October 2024
Good news for buyers, with property listings rising 7.9%

Home hunters have considerably more stock to choose from than earlier in the year, putting buyers ...

Home & Investment Loans | 4th October 2024
Housing assistance scheme helping tens of thousands of buyers

The federal government’s Home Guarantee Scheme (HGS) helped 43,800 buyers enter the market ...

Home & Investment Loans | 30th September 2024
Investor borrowing rises 35.4%

Property investors committed to $11.71 billion of home loans in July 2024, which was the ...

Home & Investment Loans | 13th September 2024
How to build your dream house

One of the great things about constructing your own home is that it can be tailored to your ...

Home & Investment Loans | 5th September 2024
Mortgage activity rising, as borrowers commit to $29bn of home loans

The latest home loans data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics has revealed three key ...

Home & Investment Loans | 28th August 2024
Why banks assess your home loan repayment capacity at higher interest rates

When you apply for a mortgage, the lender uses a series of criteria to assess how your capacity ...

Home & Investment Loans | 20th August 2024
Rents expected to keep growing, but at slower pace

Property investors have enjoyed a golden run over the past five years, during which the national ...

Home & Investment Loans | 14th August 2024
Property investors very active in the market

Home loan volumes have significantly increased over the past year, especially among investors. ...

Home & Investment Loans | 7th August 2024
New Vendor data shows interesting sales trends

Record property prices are proving to be good news for vendors, with 94.3% of all vendors in the ...

Home & Investment Loans | 6th August 2024
RBA leaves cash rate unchanged at 4.35%

For the sixth consecutive meeting, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) held the cash rate steady ...

Home & Investment Loans | 31st July 2024
First home buyers and single parents get more housing support

The federal government has allocated another 50,000 places across Australia to its Home Guarantee ...

Home & Investment Loans | 25th July 2024
Record loan sizes increase the need to shop around

With property prices at record levels, the size of the average mortgage has also reached new ...

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