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 • 28 Feb 2011
CBA increases max LVR
The Commonwealth Bank has become the latest in a long line of lenders to increase its maximum LVR (loan to valuation ratio).
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Finance • 25 Feb 2011
CBA unveils ground breaking no fee loan
In what has been touted as an industry first, the Commonwealth Bank has launched a new no fee variable interest rate home loan.
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Finance • 25 Feb 2011
Buyers turn to brokers
Home buyers and investors are increasingly turning to mortgage brokers, the latest Mortgage and Finance Association of Australia (MFAA)/Bankwest Home Finance Index has...
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Finance • 24 Feb 2011
Investors unfazed by interest rates
Stability in the cash rate has reduced investors’ concerns about borrowing costs with potential for capital growth now the biggest factor influencing investors’...
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Finance • 24 Feb 2011
More calls for stamp duty reform
First National Real Estate CEO Ray Ellis has joined the voices calling for a reform of state taxes, in particular stamp duty, saying it is excessive and placing too much...
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Finance • 23 Feb 2011
St George customers can borrow more
Property buyers will now be able to borrow more with St George, with the bank re-introducing home loans up to 95 per cent LVR (loan to valuation ratio).
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Finance • 23 Feb 2011
New savings account for home savers
The Commonwealth Bank has released a new savings product to help aspiring property buyers save a deposit faster.
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Finance • 17 Feb 2011
Self-employed investors struggle for finance
The new national consumer credit protection laws have reduced lender appetite for low doc (low documentation) loans, making it more difficult for self-employed investors...
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Finance • 16 Feb 2011
Buyers to win as bank battle breaks out
Investors’ financing options are widening as competition between the big banks fires up.
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Finance • 11 Feb 2011
New mortgages hit 10 yr low
The number of new Australian owner-occupier mortgages has hit a ten-year low in 2010, research from Datamonitor found.
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