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 • 30 Jul 2011
Major cuts fixed rates
St George Bank has cut its two and three year fixed rate home loans due to strong buyer demand.
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Finance • 28 Jul 2011
Inflation spike sparks rate hike concerns
A strong and sustained rise in underlying inflation has reignited interest rate fears and forced economists to rethink their market expectations.
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Finance • 25 Jul 2011
Home loans at the click of a button
Finding the right type of loan has been made simple for the nation’s property investors and home buyers with the release of  Mortgage Choice’s new consumer iApp.
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Finance • 22 Jul 2011
Interest rates, natural disasters hit borrowers
Mortgage arrears are expected to hover at historically high levels for the foreseeable future.
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Finance • 18 Jul 2011
Westpac predicts rate cut
Borrowing costs could be heading down, not up, if commentary from Westpac’s chief economist Bill Evans is anything to go buy.
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Finance • 14 Jul 2011
No rate rise until Xmas: NAB
Soft consumer spending could see interest rates stay on hold until as late as Christmas, according to National Australia Bank.
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Finance • 12 Jul 2011
Borrowers behind on mortgage payments
Arrears on Australian home loans jumped 25 per cent in the first quarter of the year, according to the latest data from Standard & Poor’s.
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Finance • 08 Jul 2011
Listings remain high, clearance rates improve: RP Data
Total listings remain 28.6 per cent higher than a year ago, while auction rates improved slightly on a weekly basis, RP Data reported in its latest market update report...
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Finance • 06 Jul 2011
Rate hold only sensible option
The Reserve Bank’s decision to leave the official cash rate unchanged at 4.75 per cent has been labelled as the “only sensible decision available” by the Housing...
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Finance • 06 Jul 2011
Rates on hold 2 - July 2011
The current mildly restrictive stance of monetary policy remains "appropriate", the Reserve Bank has claimed.
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