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Finance • 31 OCT 2025

Big four bank declares end of rate-easing cycle

Australia's biggest bank is predicting that the RBA has reached the end of the current rate-easing cycle.

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Finance • 09 OCT 2018

Fixed rate loans spike as banks circle

With home loan interest rates up at three out of the four major banks, fixed rate mortgages are on the rise with property owners and investors. 

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Finance • 25 SEP 2018

Borrowers are giving up on the major banks

APRA’s latest quarterly banking statistics show borrowers are not going to major banks due to lack of trust and are instead seeking out customer-owned banks, the CEO...

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Finance • 03 NOV 2017

The impact the major banks are leaving on investors

Phil Tarrant welcomes Momentum Media’s managing editors of wealth, Aleks Vickovich, and mortgages,  James Mitchell, to talk politics, power poverty, rebalancing...

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Finance • 19 MAY 2017

Equity considered to be ‘untouched piggy banks’ by investors

With a lot of property wealth contained within equity, one Australian firm sees this equity as not being optimised by investors.

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Finance • 24 OCT 2016

Banks offering ‘significant discounts’ to property investors

New research has revealed that property investors are negotiating significant price discounts on home loans, despite measures to cool investor lending.

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Finance • 19 FEB 2016

What are the big four banks doing to investment loans?

With the big four banks complying with lending changes, what does this mean for property investors?

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Finance • 05 OCT 2015

'The banks rejected my loan application four times': Cam McLellan interview

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Finance • 02 SEP 2015

Are the banks taking advantage of investors?

In recent months, the big four banks and a number of smaller lending institutions have attempted to put the brakes on investor lending – but is all as it seems?

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Finance • 02 JUN 2015

Banks' investor crackdown continues

Lenders across the country are continuing to introduce measures to crackdown on investor activity.

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Finance • 22 MAY 2015

Banks closing ranks to freeze out investors

Investors are being told to keep a close eye on the market in coming weeks – with even more lenders announcing changes to their serviceability and borrowing...

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Finance • 02 OCT 2014

Banks have reduced their fixed-rate home loans

It seems we are in the midst of a mortgage war with many of the big banks reducing their fixed-rate home loans to all-time lows.

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Finance • 30 SEP 2014

Auction buyers risk loan shortfall

As market conditions heat up in capital cities, investors have been warned to avoid overpaying at auction or face a funding crisis. 

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Finance • 22 AUG 2014

SMSF investors have option to bypass banks

Australians buying property in their self-managed super fund can avoid borrowing from a bank by becoming their own lender, a financial adviser has suggested.

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Finance • 11 APR 2014

I don't like properties which the banks don't like

As a buyers agents, our role is not only to secure the property and deal with the negotiations and due-diligence and post-contract processes. We are there to guide our...

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Tax & Legal • 02 SEP 2013

How to jump through the banks' SMSF hoops

Buying property and borrowing in your SMSF has fast become a growing topic of interest among serious property investors. To accommodate the interest, the scope of...

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Finance • 15 AUG 2013

Investors FYI - How the banks work

In the movie 'Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps' Michael Douglas sums it up perfectly - today's society is ruled by debt and banks are no exception.

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Finance • 26 JUL 2012

Property owners unhappy with banks

Roy Morgan Research shows overall satisfaction with the big four banks dropped for a fifth consecutive month in June.

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Finance • 20 JUL 2012

Investors choose banks over brokers

A majority of consumers feel more confident going direct to a bank than to brokers, new research has revealed.

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Finance • 11 JUL 2012

Banks launch discounted mortgages

Competition between Australia’s banks continues to heat up, with a number of lenders cutting their mortgage interest rates on both variable and fixed rate products.

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Finance • 08 MAR 2012

Banks to hold firm on rates

The major banks should keep their interest rates on hold in March, a new survey has revealed.

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Finance • 10 FEB 2012

Getting to know non-banks

They offer you home loans just like a bank and yet they are not a bank. Well, exactly what are they?

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Finance • 07 FEB 2012

Gvt should ensure banks follow RBA

One industry stakeholder is calling on the government to introduce a national surveillance regime to ensure Australia's majors follow any rate changes announced by the...

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Finance • 07 DEC 2011

Smaller banks pile pressure on big four

Yesterday, ME Bank and Bank of Queensland moved quickly on rates, passing on the full RBA rate cut - which now sees the official cash rate at 4.25 per cent - to their...

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Finance • 17 AUG 2011

Major banks dominate mortgage market

Australia’s banks continue to maintain the lion’s share of the mortgage market, with new research showing these lenders now account for more than 90 per cent of the...

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