7 Jun 2022
ANALYSIS Mortgage lenders are increasingly offering sweeteners to mortgagors that specifically target cost-of-living ...
3 Jun 2022
The results of Momentum Intelligence’s 2022 Third-Party Lending survey of residential mortgage brokers have been released, ...
22 Dec 2021
ANALYSIS: The Bank of England became one of the first major economies to increase rates since the pandemic first hit, but ...
25 Nov 2020
The director of private commercial lender Semper, Andrew Way, reveals there has been a noticeable increase in applications ...
3 Jun 2019
The ratings agency has outlined its new methodology for analysing reverse mortgage risks.
15 May 2019
The average property investor pays hundreds and thousands of dollars in taxes under existing arrangements, with the burden ...
20 Jul 2018
A new study from the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) seeks to demonstrate how applying limits to loan-to-value ratios ...
19 Jul 2018
With Westpac and its subsidiaries bowing out of the SMSF lending space, the future of this niche offering is uncertain.
25 Jun 2018
CBA’s decision to offload its wealth business should come as no surprise to anyone. Running a “simple” outfit has now become ...
20 Jun 2018
Too much red tape in the mortgage industry can actually leave consumers in a worse position, as some markets are starting to ...
4 Jun 2018
Not too long ago, Australia’s big banks were asked by a parliamentary inquiry when they planned to introduce tracker ...
18 May 2018
About 73 per cent of Australia’s exports go to Asia. China is our biggest export partner. But with fresh doubts cast over ...
11 May 2018
A mortgage crackdown in the former British colony is creating serious consequences for borrowers and led to the emergence of ...
9 May 2018
Every year, the federal budget whips journos into a ritualistic frenzy of anticipation that I still find odd. This year’s ...
26 Mar 2018
Under the leadership of CEO Shayne Elliott, ANZ is eager to transform itself into a smaller, simpler and more technologically ...
14 Mar 2018
The royal commission has heard how a major bank pays its introducers up to 60 basis points commission for referring mortgage ...
29 Jan 2018
The Mortgage Business Uncut podcast is your weekly analysis of the biggest themes shaping the Australian mortgages market.
21 Dec 2017
Two major non-bank lenders have been acquired by American firms this year and rumours are swirling that more takeovers are on ...
27 Nov 2017
Details of the proposed merger between an ADI and a major aggregator suggest that an innovative home loan offering is on the ...
9 Nov 2017
Mortgage management models, monoline offerings and white label lending are making a return in a big way.
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This stuff riles me big time. As a licensed finance broker I have to tell my clients in writing what brokerage is paid to me upfront before they agree to me acting on their behalf in securing a loan. .....analysis, have to provide three recommendations and why we recommended these lenders and then hope t...
I respect Matt Lawler. He is a smart guy, but if YBR truly believed that, it would lead with Planning rather than advertising mortgage rates on TV. If YBR is serious about this, stop advertising produ.....analysis, profiling THEN asset class and THEN implementation, humans will think you are nuts , espec...
Good analysis Kathy- what's happening in financial planning re education standards and increasing pressure on fee transparency is going to swamp every specialty of financial services....sooner rather ...
How much rent would you pay over that same 30 year period if you weren't paying off your home mortgage?And then what happens in retirement? If you've paid off your home, you have no direct housing co.....analysis of housing costs over the 30 years? Back to you Staff reporter.