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 Jan 2011
Westpac provides flood relief
Westpac will commit $1 million to the Queensland flood relief.
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Finance • 10 Jan 2011
Rates on hold til mid 2011
Economists remain confident that the Reserve Bank of Australia will not lift the official cash rate for some months.
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Finance • 10 Jan 2011
Demand soars for fixed rates
Fixed home loan demand has reached a 31 month high, new figures have revealed.
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Finance • 07 Jan 2011
APRA to crackdown on new bank rules
Making headlines today, Australia’s Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) chairman John Laker has pledged to take a tough line in applying new global banking rules to...
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Finance • 07 Jan 2011
Non-bank slashes rates
Australian First Mortgage has slashed 0.15 per cent off its two year fixed rate.
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Finance • 05 Jan 2011
Construction finance – realising your property dreams
Owning your own slice of Australia has long been the dream of would-be buyers and with the beefed-up government incentives for first home owners soon to end, now could...
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Finance • 04 Jan 2011
Mortgage payments to last retirement
Almost half of all Australian households will be paying off their mortgage in retirement.
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Finance • 30 Dec 2010
Brokerage recommends mortgage health checks
Loan Market Group is urging all borrowers to use the festive season to conduct a mortgage health check.
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Finance • 30 Dec 2010
One million Aussies look to switch banks
Making headlines today, The Herald Sun has reported that more than one million Australians are looking to switch their mortgage to another financial institution.
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Finance • 29 Dec 2010
Borrowers slam banking reforms
More than 80 per cent of Australians believe the federal government’s latest banking reforms do not go far enough to help home borrowers.
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