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 • 14 Mar 2011
Home loan take up increases in Feb
Home finance activity showed signs of recovery in February following a post-floods slump in January.
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Finance • 14 Mar 2011
Lender slashes fixed rates
ING DIRECT has reduced the interest on its three year fixed rate home loan by 0.14 per cent.
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Finance • 11 Mar 2011
ANZ named lender of the year
ANZ has been named Australia’s lender of the year at the inaugural The Adviser's Australian Lending Awards held at The Westin hotel in Sydney last night.
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Finance • 10 Mar 2011
Home finance activity slumps in January
Natural disasters worked to dampen property buying activity in January with new data revealing a plunge in new home loan approvals over the month.
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Finance • 09 Mar 2011
Buyers choose non-banks
Increasing numbers of investors and home buyers are choosing non-bank lenders to finance their property purchases, sales figures from mortgage broking group AFG have...
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Finance • 09 Mar 2011
Major cuts rates
The war between Australia’s major lenders shows no signs of abating, with Westpac slashing interest rates across a number of its mortgages.
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Finance • 09 Mar 2011
Next rate rise delayed
Investors and home buyers may not face another rate rise until as late as August according to the latest forecasts from National Australia Bank.
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Finance • 08 Mar 2011
Westpac slams exit fee reforms
Westpac’s chief executive Gail Kelly has slammed the government’s proposed ban on exit fees as “poor public policy”.
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Finance • 07 Mar 2011
Fixed rate demand wanes
A spate of attractive variable rate promotions from Australia’s largest lenders has resulted in reduced appetite for fixed rate mortgages.
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Finance • 02 Mar 2011
Steady rates to help new housing
The RBA’s decision to keep the official cash rate on hold will provide a nice confidence boost to the residential sector.
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