Finance Tips and Insights - Smart Property Investment

Property investment is often regarded as a game of finance. Here’s how you can best understand the financing options and strategies to suit your portfolio.
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Finance • 15 Nov 2011
Bank cuts rate to under 6pc
Proving fixed rates are still en vogue, one non-major has slashed 26 basis points from its three year fixed rate.
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Finance • 15 Nov 2011
St George trims rates
St George has responded to growing demand for fixed rate mortgages by slashing the interest rate on its two and three year products.
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Finance • 10 Nov 2011
Rate cut unlikely to cause property market surge
It could take up to nine months before the Reserve Bank’s November rate cut will have any effect on buyer confidence and the property market, Realmark director John...
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Finance • 09 Nov 2011
New investors dominate finance enquiries
First time buyers and investors have dominated housing finance enquiries, new research has revealed.
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Finance • 09 Nov 2011
Unemployment data sparks rate talk
There could be scope for the Reserve Bank to cut interest rates again very soon, as unemployment gets set to rise.
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Finance • 08 Nov 2011
RBA shocks with rate cut
It’s happened again. For the second consecutive year, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) managed to upstage the race that stops a nation.
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Finance • 02 Nov 2011
‘Swift action’ from online lenders
Loans.com.au customers will be among the first to benefit from the Reserve Bank of Australia’s decision yesterday to cut interest rates by 25 basis points.
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Finance • 02 Nov 2011
Cash rate cut to spur refinancing
Thirty-six per cent of property owners are more likely to refinance now the cash rate has dropped, a Mortgage Choice survey has found.
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Finance • 02 Nov 2011
RBA Cuts Rates - November 2011
For the second consecutive year, the Reserve Bank of Australia has managed to upstage the race that stops a nation – Melbourne Cup.
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Finance • 01 Nov 2011
Victoria to cut stamp duty payment deadline
The time limit for the payment of stamp duty will be reduced under laws introduced by Victoria’s Baillieu government late last week.
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