Are you looking to own your own business with a great income? Then come and meet us at our office for a mortgage broking industry seminar on Wednesday 12th April 2023 at 6pm in North Sydney. How To Kick-Start A Mortgage Broking Career – Sticky Tickets There is a strong demand for mortgage brokers. If you: …then think […]
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Nathan Mawby| Real Estate| 19 September 2022 How all the bloomin’ rate rises are affecting the spring market and you – realestate.com.au Interest rate hikes have piled on hundreds of dollars of hip-pocket pain for anyone with a mortgage and reshaped the property market this year. After five rate hikes in as many months, a […]
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Kate Farrelly| Domain| 29 August 2022 What is loyalty tax and how do you avoid paying it? (domain.com.au) Picture this scenario. You’ve reached the front of the line at your favourite cafe and happily pay $4 for your flat white. But then the next customer places the same order and is only charged $3. Turns […]
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Tawar Razaghi| Domain| 14 September 2022 House prices are falling. Confidence is edging up. Is it a good time to buy? (domain.com.au) Home buyers have a stronger chance of getting into the property market this spring than during the pandemic-era boom, but experts are mixed about whether even better buying opportunities lie ahead. While some […]
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Nila Sweeney and Michael Bleby| Australian Financial Review| 19 September 2022 Stockland CEO Tarun Gupta predicts housing market balance by 2024 (afr.com) New housing demand will pick up in the next 18 to 24 months as rising wages and falling prices combine to improve the affordability problem keeping buyers out of the market, says Stockland […]
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Jayden Fennell| Australian Broker] 13 September 2022 New MFAA CEO seeks greater broker market share (brokernews.com.au) The new CEO of the MFAA says she is well aware of the challenges that brokers face, including channel conflict, given she has more than two decades of financial services industry experience. But Anja Pannek (pictured above), interviewed by […]
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Clancy Yeates| Sydney Morning Herald| 25 March 2019 https://www.smh.com.au/business/banking-and-finance/nab-axes-controversial-home-loan-referral-program-20190325-p517b2.html Real estate agents, lawyers and sports clubs will no longer be able to receive payments from National Australia Bank for helping sell home loans, in a move aimed at rebuilding trust after the bank’s reputation took a battering at the royal commission. Acting chief executive Phil Chronican […]
[...]James Frost| Australian Financial Review| 26 March 2019 https://www.afr.com/business/banking-and-finance/mortgage-brokers-push-for-more-concessions-20190326-p517oe Mortgage brokers continued to push the federal government and the opposistion for more concessions following their successful lobbying against a banking royal commission reform. Mark Haron, chief executive of mortgage broking aggreator Connective Group, said the industry was still lobbying against proposals that might undermine the […]
[...]Annie Kane| 12 March 2019| The Adviser https://www.theadviser.com.au/breaking-news/38899-treasurer-delays-trail-abolition-date Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has said that the government will look at reviewing the impacts of removing trail in three years’ time rather than abolishing it next year as originally announced, following concerns regarding competition. In an announcement on Tuesday (12 March), Treasurer Josh Frydenberg said that “following […]
[...]Matthew Cranston| The New Daily| 29 March 2019 https://www.afr.com/news/economy/housing-credit-growth-lowest-since-records-began-20190329-p518vf Credit growth for housing has shown a mild recovery in February but the annual growth rate has hit the lowest level since records started in 1977. The monthly figure showed housing credit rose 0.3 per cent in February, according to figures published by the Reserve Bank […]
[...]The Economist| 29 November 2018 TWICE IN THE past 30 years, housing finance has taken down America’s economy. As interest rates rise and the housing market stutters (see article), regulators are again pondering the risks from the mortgage market—this time from a shift towards non-bank originators. Upgrade your inbox and get our Daily Dispatch and […]
[...]Annie Kane| The Adviser| 23 October 2018 https://www.theadviser.com.au/breaking-news/38396-consultation-on-mortgages-a-fundamental-human-need-anz-ceo The chief executive officer of ANZ has said that the need to talk to a person about buying a home is a “fundamental human need” and one that he envisages will play a role despite technological advances. During the opening plenary session at the SWIFT International Banking Operations […]
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https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2020/09/30/why-despite-the-coronavirus-pandemic-house-prices-continue-to-rise The Economist| 30 September 2020 During the global recession a decade ago, real house prices fell by an average of 10%, wiping trillions of dollars off the world’s largest asset class. Though the housing market has not been the trigger of economic woes this time, investors and homeowners still braced for the worst as it […]
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https://www.afr.com/property/residential/buyers-return-to-the-housing-market-20201020-p566pa Mirana Ward| Australian Financial Review| 20 October 2020 Residential sales nationally are outpacing fresh listings of properties for sale as buyers take advantage of low mortgage rates, one of several indicators pointing to a rebound in the housing market. The median vendor discount eased across capital cities and regional areas in the three months to […]
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Steven Deare| The New Daily| 9 October 2020 https://thenewdaily.com.au/finance/property/2020/10/09/home-loans-august/ More Australians are seeking to buy a property while interest rates remain at historically low levels, sending new home loan commitments surging. Home buyers took advantage of a virus-flattened housing market in August, as borrowing rose by 12.6 per cent on the previous month. New loan […]
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Across the country auction clearance rates are strong and getting stronger. Low interest rates, government handouts and possible relaxing of lending criteria are encouraging Australians to take out a mortgage and buy a property. Most of the country has auction clearance rates around 70 per cent; the tipping point between a buyers’ and sellers’ market. […]
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https://au.finance.yahoo.com/news/now-is-the-time-to-buy-stop-renting-property-experts-warn-003604463.html Anastasia Santoreneos| Yahoo Finance| 8 September 2020 Australians in all capital cities, bar Sydney and Melbourne, would be better off buying a home than renting it, new data has revealed. According to Pete Wargent, co-founder of online buyers’ agency marketplace BuyersBuyers.com.au, it’s more compelling to purchase, rather than rent, a home in most states […]
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https://au.finance.yahoo.com/news/how-long-will-it-take-for-the-australian-economy-to-return-to-growth-013515485.html Yahoo Finance| 9 September 2020 The Australian economy is set to end 2020 lower than what it began but economists expect better years ahead. The Reserve Bank believes it will take until 2022 for the economy to reach its pre-COVID levels — a view shared by several other economists in the private sector including from […]
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