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Australians love mortgages much more than 20 years agoHaving a mortgage is cool. Or it must be, because the trends show that we Australians are much more in love with mortgages than we were two decades ago. Reserve Bank statistics on mortgage debts, which they only began to record in 1990, show that our thirst for mortgages has been increasing at a rapid [...] |
New Reserve Bank rise means we?ll pay more on our mortgagesThis time round, sadly, the Reserve Bank hasn’t surprised us: at this morning’s March meeting the powers that be announced that they would be raising the official cash rate by 25 points to 4.0 per cent, effective from tomorrow. After the surprise announcement in February that the cash rate wouldn’t rise – despite pretty much [...] |
Want to be a first homeowner? Affordability study says you?re too lateIf you’re not a member of the Australian mortgage (chain) gang yet, a study released this week might be bad news for you. According to the quarterly Housing Industry Association-Commonwealth Bank first home buyer affordability index study which was just published, affordability for buying a house (and the accompanying mortgage) in Australia has got worse [...] |
Tue, 16 Feb 2010 repayment problems on the riseAre you one of the increasing number of Australian home loan holders who are having problems making their mortgage repayments? Apparently the number of people getting into trouble with their mortgages is on the rise, according to data released earlier this week. Not only that, the prediction is that it’s only going to get worse. Thanks [...] |
Banks warned not to raise our mortgage rates againI may not always be a big fan of politicians – from any party – but any politician who tells my bank not to raise my mortgage interest rate has got to be okay in my books. That’s what the federal treasurer Wayne Swan has been saying this week after a big government announcment on [...] |
Reserve Bank surprises us by holding cash rate steadyDespite many predictions to the contrary, the Reserve Bank of Australia met today and decided not to raise the official cash rate again. Good news, and quite unexpected, for all of us mortgage holders out there who had been expecting to see another rise in interest rates. All the news reports and predictions had been saying [...] |