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		<title>Inflation figures may increase our mortgage rates</title>
		<link>http://www.mortgageseek.com.au/blog/2010/07/27/inflation-figures-may-increase-our-mortgage-rates/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 03:10:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amanda Kendle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was reading the paper on the weekend I can&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do we choose mortgages by interest rate alone?</title>
		<link>http://www.mortgageseek.com.au/blog/2010/07/21/do-we-choose-mortgages-by-interest-rate-alone/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mortgageseek.com.au/blog/2010/07/21/do-we-choose-mortgages-by-interest-rate-alone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:13:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amanda Kendle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interest rate rise waiting for federal election</title>
		<link>http://www.mortgageseek.com.au/blog/2010/07/13/interest-rate-rise-waiting-for-federal-election/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mortgageseek.com.au/blog/2010/07/13/interest-rate-rise-waiting-for-federal-election/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 01:08:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amanda Kendle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;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&#8217;t raise interest rates until after the federal election. Of course, we don&#8217;t yet know how soon the federal election could be &#8211; late next month is a common tip at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mortgages in Australia aren&#8217;t as easy as they say</title>
		<link>http://www.mortgageseek.com.au/blog/2010/07/06/mortgages-in-australia-arent-as-easy-as-they-say/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mortgageseek.com.au/blog/2010/07/06/mortgages-in-australia-arent-as-easy-as-they-say/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 07:24:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amanda Kendle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The experts are trying to make the mortgage situation in Australia sound all optimistic &#8211; they think interest rates won&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mortgage news on rates, laws and politicians</title>
		<link>http://www.mortgageseek.com.au/blog/2010/06/29/mortgage-news-on-rates-laws-and-politicians/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 13:30:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amanda Kendle</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mortgageseek.com.au/blog/?p=206</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Late repayment, early repayment, both in the mortgage news</title>
		<link>http://www.mortgageseek.com.au/blog/2010/06/22/late-repayment-early-repayment-both-in-the-mortgage-news/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 10:41:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amanda Kendle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australian Mortgage News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There 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 &#8211; the kind that are on the decrease in Australia at the moment, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Experts more optimistic than us on mortgage rate rises</title>
		<link>http://www.mortgageseek.com.au/blog/2010/06/15/experts-more-optimistic-than-us-on-mortgage-rate-rises/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 05:08:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amanda Kendle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Surveys are showing that as individuals, mortgage holders like me are more pessimistic than the experts about how many interest rate rises we are going to have to pay out for in the next year or so. I guess those of us who are the ones who&#8217;ll have to dig deeper in our pockets are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Less mortgages, but we can afford more interest</title>
		<link>http://www.mortgageseek.com.au/blog/2010/06/08/less-mortgages-but-we-can-afford-more-interest/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mortgageseek.com.au/blog/2010/06/08/less-mortgages-but-we-can-afford-more-interest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 00:41:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amanda Kendle</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mortgageseek.com.au/blog/?p=197</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There are two big items in the mortgage news this week: for those of us already in the mortgage market, I&#8217;m looking at whether or not we can afford to pay higher interest rates, and if you&#8217;re someone who&#8217;s waiting to buy their first property and are trying to get a mortgage, there&#8217;s news about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No interest rate rise for June</title>
		<link>http://www.mortgageseek.com.au/blog/2010/06/02/no-interest-rate-rise-for-june/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mortgageseek.com.au/blog/2010/06/02/no-interest-rate-rise-for-june/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 11:51:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amanda Kendle</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mortgageseek.com.au/blog/?p=194</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Phew. We&#8217;ve survived another start of the month Reserve Bank meeting without having to reach into our pockets and hand over more hard earned cash to the bank in the form of higher interest payments. The Reserve Bank met on Tuesday and decided, as many experts had tipped they would, to keep the cash rate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do you want an everlasting mortgage?</title>
		<link>http://www.mortgageseek.com.au/blog/2010/05/25/do-you-want-an-everlasting-mortgage/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mortgageseek.com.au/blog/2010/05/25/do-you-want-an-everlasting-mortgage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 19:50:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amanda Kendle</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mortgageseek.com.au/blog/?p=192</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Want to have a mortage that lasts forever? Believe it or not, that&#8217;s the enticement being used by a particular bank at the moment: sign up for your &#8220;everlasting mortgage&#8221;. That doesn&#8217;t sound very enticing to me, but when you look into the product then it could be something that suits you &#8211; if you&#8217;re [...]]]></description>
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