Finance Tips and Insights - Smart Property Investment

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Finance • 21 Feb 2023

Major consumer survey on taking out a home loan opens

Smart Property Investment is urging its readers to complete a survey about their experiences around taking out a home loan through a mortgage broker or a bank.

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Finance • 14 Feb 2023

4 methods which could reduce your home loan

Even with financial stress growing among many Australian households in the face of rising interest rates and inflation, there are methods to relieve these pains.

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Finance • 07 Feb 2023

Property Finance Uncut: RBA serves up first 2023 rate hike – Stop overpaying on your mortgage

With the RBA serving up a 25-basis-point rate hike in February, can borrowers continue to hold the line? While the going is getting tough for property investors, these...

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Finance • 07 Feb 2023

RBA dishes out 2023’s first cash rate decision

Two months after its last meeting, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has delivered its debut cash rate decision of the new year.

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Finance • 07 Feb 2023

Expect property price declines of up to 11% in 2023: Report

With interest rate rises weighing on prices, a new outlook report is forecasting property price falls of between 7 and 10 per cent nationally.

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Finance • 06 Feb 2023

How this investor cracked the property finance code with just $5k

Is it possible to climb the property ladder with just $5,000 in your bank account? This first-time buyer did just that — with the help of a mortgage broker.

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Finance • 04 Feb 2023

Australia’s interest rate future: When will the RBA cease rate hikes?

The Reserve Bank of Australia’s (RBA) aggressive, inflation-stemming cash rate hiking cycle has left many Australian home owners questioning if and when it will end.

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Finance • 03 Feb 2023

INSIDE COMMERCIAL PROPERTY: Balancing the finance books behind commercial portfolios

It’s no secret that a healthy balance sheet is a pillar to successful commercial real estate investing. So on the latest episode of Inside Commercial Property with...

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Finance • 02 Feb 2023

Over 1 million mortgagors ‘at risk’ of mortgage stress: Roy Morgan

Mortgage stress increased to the highest level since July 2013 in the three months to December 2022, with almost a quarter of mortgage holders now “at risk”, new...

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Finance • 27 Jan 2023

Annual inflation balloons to 30-year high

The Australian Bureau of Statistics’ (ABS) consumer price index (CPI) data revealed annual inflation reached its highest point since 1990 last December.

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