Don’t Believe Everything You Read

07 AUG 2018 Promoted by David Wegener, Chief Executive Officer, Blue Ink Finance 3 min read Finance

Promoted by Blue Ink Finance.

We are told again and again “Don’t believe everything you read…!” I

t’s because the media is very good at eliciting emotional responses - so they will position most articles on fear - that’s what sells newspapers right?

So you can be forgiven for taking a negative view on banks and financing when you read “Westpac is set to rock the increasingly nervous property market by withdrawing new loan offers to self-managed superannuation funds”.

To be honest this move hasn’t come as a great surprise.Ever since APRA initiated restrictions on investment lending a couple of years ago, there have been quite a few major players move out of the SMSF lending space.

Up until recently St George (owned by Westpac) were one of the most in demand lenders in the SMSF space, and after “filling their boots” for several years they decided to significantly raise their SMSF interest rate which had priced them out of the market and seen volumes drop significantly. With all the extra work that goes into an SMSF loan my guess is that they decided that it didn’t make sense to keep offering such a specialist product.

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So when you couple that with further information in these articles that reads “It will also make already jittery property investors even more nervous about the outlook amid falling prices, rising costs and oversupply, particularly for apartments in the inner suburbs of Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.” Most people who are looking to invest themselves could be stopped dead in their tracks thinking they have missed the market and there is no hope for them.

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For example, with the bigger banks moving out of SMSF lending over the last couple of years, we have seen the smaller “third tier” lenders move in and carve out quite a niche for themselves.

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These lenders struggle to compete with the big banks for normal residential loans but being a more nimble and less rigid business actually gives them an advantage with specialist lending such as SMSF. And while we would always prefer more competition in any industry, there are still plenty of good lenders ready to fill the hole left by Westpac & St George.

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Reference https://www.afr.com/real-estate/westpac-set-to-rock-property-market-by-pulling-out-of-smsf-lending-20180716-h12q72

About The Author

David Wegener
Chief Executive Officer
Blue Ink Finance