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Australian Mortgage news & updates
Inflation figures may increase our mortgage ratesWhen I was reading the paper on the weekend I can’t say it made my day to see this headline: Warning: Your mortgage is going up. This story was carried by all the major papers across Australia and the headline was enough to make me more than a little concerned, despite having heard that an [...] |
Do we choose mortgages by interest rate alone?If you read about mortgages in the news, then the most topic home loan related topic is definitely interest rates. Sure, we also want to read about different methods of repayment or whether or not we can pay off the loan early, but when it comes down to it, the most popular mortgage stories are [...] |
Interest rate rise waiting for federal electionHere’s some good news for mortgage holders worried about more interest rate rises in the near future: the banks are all saying that they won’t raise interest rates until after the federal election. Of course, we don’t yet know how soon the federal election could be – late next month is a common tip at [...] |
Tue, 06 Jul 2010 s in Australia aren?t as easy as they sayThe experts are trying to make the mortgage situation in Australia sound all optimistic – they think interest rates won’t rise too much and they suggest that plenty of Australians are still able to cope well with an existing mortgage or to enter the home loan market for the first time. But just because Australia [...] |
Tue, 29 Jun 2010 news on rates, laws and politiciansThis week the mortgage news in Australia varies from banks trying not to raise interest rates, to new laws coming in to stop some of the excessive fees we can pay, and on to a mortgage belonging to the Leader of the Opposition, Tony Abbott! In more detail: The global financial crisis, among other factors, has [...] |
Late repayment, early repayment, both in the mortgage newsThere are lots of interesting tidbits in Australian mortgage news this week, so without further ado: It seems our constantly rising interest rates are having a negative impact on some mortgage holders, especially those people who are on 100% loans or no-docs mortgages – the kind that are on the decrease in Australia at the moment, [...] |