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 • 17 Aug 2010
Lenders drop fixed rates
Non-bank lenders and second tier banks are seeking to win greater consumer business with reductions to their fixed rate home loans.
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Finance • 12 Aug 2010
Borrowers don’t want to be locked in
It would appear that today's property buyers prefer to keep their options open with almost all borrowers preferring variable interest rate home loans over fixed.
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Finance • 12 Aug 2010
Fixed mortgage appeal slides
Demand for fixed rate home loans fell to just 2 per cent of all home loan approvals in July despite their increased parity to standard variable rates, recently released...
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Finance • 11 Aug 2010
Borrowers turn to brokers to refinance
When it comes to refinancing, almost half of borrowers turn to a mortgage broker for advice, the latest research shows.
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Finance • 10 Aug 2010
Housing finance activity slides in June
Housing finance activity declined again in June, according to the latest figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), off the back of the slowing housing...
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Finance • 06 Aug 2010
First home buyer mortgages up in July
Despite a cooling property market in most sectors, there is a glimpse of a recovery in the first home buyer sector, the latest data has revealed.
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Finance • 06 Aug 2010
Banks red flagged over aggressive credit marketing
Australian banks have landed themselves in hot water with a new report accusing them of recklessly encouraging consumers to take on debt.
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Finance • 05 Aug 2010
Australians’ savings dangerously low
A new index from ING DIRECT has revealed a worrying trend among Australians’ savings patterns – or, rather, lack of savings patterns.
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Finance • 04 Aug 2010
Rate hold welcome news for property market
The housing industry has welcomed the RBA’s decision to keep rates on hold and called for the central bank to continue to maintain the cash rate at the existing...
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Finance • 04 Aug 2010
Cash rate on hold but mortgage rates could still rise
The official cash rate remained on hold yesterday, but in today’s mortgage market that’s no guarantee that banks and other lenders won’t increase the interest...
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