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ME Bank facing 62 criminal charges over mortgage fail
The Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions will allege ME Bank gave wrong information to customers or failed to notify them altogether about mortgage changes.
- by Charlotte Grieve
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Banks beware: Fast, cheap loans set to disrupt $1.9 trillion mortgage market
The combination of excess returns and new tech-based rivals have stoked predictions an Uber-like disruption is coming to the $1.9 trillion home loan market.
- by Clancy Yeates
Housing investors to pick up slack as first home buyers retreat: AFG
One of the country’s biggest mortgage brokers, AFG, is betting property investors will continue returning to the market.
- by Clancy Yeates
Opinion
Property prices
Is the housing boom about to bust?
The property market is going gangbusters but we must question the motives of those riding the wave that warn us we need to invest now.
- by David Hayward and Liss Ralston
Opinion
Opinion
Five ways to avoid paying extortionate lenders’ mortgage insurance
The cost of lenders’ mortgage insurance is extortionate and can run into tens of thousands of dollars.
- by Nicole Pedersen-McKinnon
Tighter bank lending a boon for Pepper Money
As Pepper prepares to go public, chief executive Mario Rehayem says the rising crop of gig economy workers offers the lender a substantial market to tap into.
- by Clancy Yeates
The $28,000 home that could have been our goldmine
My parents paid off their mortgage two years early. Imagine that.
- by Monica Dux
Opinion
Opinion
Top mortgages in the market for owner-occupiers, investors
The cheapest mortgages are offered by non-banks or are loans that are not “white-labelled” major bank products. However, they are not necessarily the best.
- by Nicole Pedersen-McKinnon
Opinion
Budgeting
The five most common money mistakes
By using these tips and tricks, you can put yourself well on track to securing your financial future.
- by Nicole Pedersen-McKinnon
‘Minimal help, maximum hype’: Single parents housing package criticised for helping only a ‘handful’
A Morrison government initiative to allow single parents to buy a home with a 2 per cent deposit has met a lukewarm welcome.
- by James Massola
ME Bank redraw breaches ‘serious and systemic’
ME Bank has been named and shamed by an industry body over last year’s bungled changes to redraw accounts.
- by Clancy Yeates