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 • 24 Mar 2011
First home buyers seek no deposit loans
Searches for no deposit home loans by first time buyers have rocketed a massive 30 per cent since the start of the year, despite the product being terminated by most...
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Finance • 18 Mar 2011
Brokers beat banks on customer satisfaction
Borrowers who use mortgage brokers are more satisfied with their home loan than those who don’t, new research has found.
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Finance • 16 Mar 2011
Self-employed struggle to secure home loans
Self-employed borrowers have been hardest hit by cautious lending policies, a new survey has found.
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Finance • 15 Mar 2011
Brokers top choice for rural buyers
Regional investors and home buyers prefer to source their finance from mortgage brokers rather than going directly to a lender, a new survey has showed.
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Finance • 15 Mar 2011
Fixed rate offerings heat up
Competition amongst the banks is gathering momentum in the fixed rate arena with ANZ the latest to announce changes to its two year fixed loans.
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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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