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The cheapest mortgage interest rates for property investors
There are still some attractive interest rates available if you want to buy – or refinance – an investment property.
- by Nicole Pedersen-McKinnon
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Analysis
Interest rates
When official interest rates rise, how much will your mortgage payments go up?
Economists have been crunching the numbers and believe interest rates would not need to rise much before they start to have a significant impact on how much you will pay on your monthly mortgage.
- by Clancy Yeates
Opinion
Home loans
How to calculate if a mortgage offset account is worth it
An offset account is a powerful way of massaging your money to make large interest savings.
- by Nicole Pedersen-McKinnon
Best mortgage interest rates for owner-occupiers
There are now almost 200 home loans with interest rates of less than 2 per cent – and all sorts of incentives to try and tempt you to switch mortgage providers.
- by Nicole Pedersen-McKinnon
Opinion
Home loans
My tips to easily slash the interest on your mortgage
It is well worth your precious time to adopt these simple strategies to set you up for a mortgage-free financial future.
- by Nicole Pedersen-McKinnon
Homebuyers load up on debt as rate rise gets closer
Mortgage holders should start getting ahead on their mortgage repayments before interest rates start to rise
- by John Collett
Opinion
Property market
Is housing still affordable? The numbers tell the real story
Since the March quarter of 1980, national capital city dwelling prices have risen 11-fold, while the price of everything else has risen by about 4.7 times.
- by Alex Joiner
Analysis
Home loans
Super-low fixed rate mortgage party looks over
Australia’s biggest banks are expecting a rise in their cost of funding within the next two years.
- by John Collett
Analysis
Home loans
High-debt borrowers in regulatory crosshairs
The financial regulators are reaching into a toolkit that can have a powerful impact on the biggest asset class in Australia: the $9 trillion housing market.
- by Clancy Yeates
Opinion
Home loans
The lenders who pay mortgage insurance for you
There is a new battleground in the bid to attract new mortgage customers in a fiercely competitive home loan market: Covering the cost of Lenders’ Mortgage Insurance.
- by Nicole Pedersen-McKinnon