Home loans
Six tips to help you pay down your mortgage
It all comes down to making more repayments.
- by Paul Benson
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Analysis
Analysis
Fixed mortgage rates slide as markets bet on RBA cut
As markets get ever more gloomy in their economic outlook, it is leading to lower borrowing costs for customers who are prepared to lock in an interest rate.
- by Clancy Yeates
Home loans
Fuelled by The Block, property turned on its head in 2003 and we've been feeling it ever since
To truly understand what the downturn could mean, it's worth examining the recent history of booms and busts.
- by Shane Wright and Eryk Bagshaw
ANZ Bank
ANZ woos property investors with interest-only loan change
ANZ is loosening some of the clamps it put on interest-only mortgage lending in 2017 after pledging to reopen the door to property investors.
- by Clancy Yeates
ING Australia backs mortgage brokers in pay shake-up
The big four banks' biggest international rival in the mortgage market, digital bank ING Australia, has stressed the need to keep the mortgage broking sector viable.
- by Clancy Yeates
Property prices
The chart that helps explain Sydney, Melbourne property price slump
If you want to know why home prices in Sydney and Melbourne fell the fastest of any capital city last year, this chart goes some way to answering that question.
- by David Scutt
Renting
Women are more likely than men to own a home
Women are more likely to own their home than men and they entering the property market younger than men.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Yellow Brick Road
'Never seen such difficult conditions:' Bouris hit by loan crackdown
Mortgage lending veteran Mark Bouris, the chairman of broker Yellow Brick Road, says conditions facing borrowers are the toughest he has experienced.
- by Clancy Yeates
Opinion
Property investment
Tighter mortgage credit is here to stay
As anyone who has tried to borrow money for a home loan recently can attest, the days of easy money are long gone.
- by Clancy Yeates
Banking royal commission
Yellow Brick Road's accounts could have $30 million pothole
Yellow Brick Road could take a hit to its balance sheet of more than $30 million, industry sources said, as it takes a knife to its goodwill and intangible assets.
- by Clancy Yeates and Roopa Gulati
Sydney house prices
Migrant cut could force RBA to reduce rates, warns housing industry
Warning comes as new figures confirm that the credit slowdown is now hitting the housing sector.
- by Shane Wright