We are often asked about buying a property with a partner, be them friends or family as an easy way of getting into the property market or expanding a portfolio faster than your could acting alone.  However there are traps and technicalities you need to consider. One answer is to buy as tenants-in-common where the […]

Off the plan purchase is all in the developers favour. Would I buy property off the plan?  not in a million years!  That’s not to say that  lot’s of people are not happy with their off the plan purchase, but in my 12 years experience as a mortgage broker I have seen plenty of people […]

“Hey Dad will you be a guarantor for our home loan?”  This is not a new question for Mums and Dads as guaranteeing your kids loans has been a common practice for decades. My Dad guaranteed my first car loan way back in 1972 and without that guarantee I would have never qualified for the […]

I have been developing an in-house CRM system for Peach Financial Group since 2002 using FileMaker Pro.  We wanted a system that was independent of their aggregator, which made life much easier when they moved aggregators in 2007.   Around that time  I released a free run-time stand alone version named Agent86 which has been […]

I thought that headline would attract your attention and if you think break fees (break costs) are already banned then you are confusing exit fees and break fees which only apply to fixed rate home loans. The truth is that as a mortgage broker I don’t support a ban on break fees, that would make […]

At least half of all of our clients are investors looking for investment home loans and when you consider the fifteen thousand inquiries that we have dealt with over the past 12 years then you would think  that we have heard them all, however almost every week someone comes up with a plan or strategy […]

Downsizing, Upsizing, Seachange or Treechange This article is intended for people who have already owned a home rather than first home buyers although much of what I wrote there still applies, especially if you don’t have much of a deposit. It isn’t specifically about new homes – just buying another home, although all is relevant ...

By far the most common problem with home renovation is that it goes over budget – this is not an issue if you have made provision for this and all of your finances are in order.  But if you have decided to renovate on the sly, maybe using some savings, or redraw or credit cards […]

If it is possible that the owner occupied home you are about to purchase may in your future be rented as an investment property you need to put the correct strategy in place before you buy this home as there are critical taxation issues which if not addressed before can cost you potentially tens of thousands […]

Changes by the Australian Federal Government to laws affecting lender’s ability to charge early exit fees and to simplify the movement of transaction account/ auto payments etc between banks means that in may ways a home loan refinance is more painless than ever.  But of course the government gives and the government taketh away and […...

Don’t despair if you find Comparison Rates confusing because your not alone – in fact I think the regulators who made them mandatory failed to understand what they were doing.  Thankfully as of last year mortgage brokers are no longer required to provide comparison rates a decision that is something of an admission that they […]

Your first home loan – biggest decision of your life fact or hogwash? I have heard so many people claim that arranging your home loan will be the most important financial decision in your life. That is quite simply hogwash! Think about it – since the federal government banned early exit fees it has never […]

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As of 1st July 2011 bank exit fees became illegal on all ‘consumer regulated’ home loans  in Australia.  Now more than 12 months later the heavens haven’t fallen and there appears to still be healthy competition from the smaller banks – something that I thought would suffer.  More recently banks can no longer put barriers [&...