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‘Combat complaints’: 3 broker tips!
Connective Group’s top three tips can help protect brokers from borrower complaints during rising-rate uncertainty.
REGULATION • Mon, 03 Oct 2022
Qld scraps land tax revisions
Queensland will not implement its controversial “anti-investor” land tax revisions, following weeks of media and industry criticism — and lack of interstate support
PROPERTY • Sun, 02 Oct 2022
Industry to weigh in on ASIC funding model
Industry participants have less than a month to have their say on ASIC’s controversial industry funding model.
ECONOMY • Thu, 29 Sep 2022
‘Records broken’ as broker market share rises
Almost 70 per cent of mortgages in Australia were being written by brokers earlier this year, according to the MFAA’s latest Industry Intelligence Service report.
Over 80% expect 50-bp hike next week
With another 50-bp rate rise increasingly likely, one economist has warned that the Reserve Bank is putting the economy at risk.
ECONOMY • Wed, 28 Sep 2022
Regional Aussies get government first home buyer boost
Federal government housing reform has arrived three months earlier with its Regional First Home Buyer Guarantee starting from 1 October.
PROPERTY • Wed, 28 Sep 2022
Australian home buyers ‘back in driver’s seat’
Rates up, house prices down — but home buyers and investors are “jockeying” for an advantageous marketplace position, says CoreLogic economist Tim Lawless.
PROPERTY • Sun, 25 Sep 2022
1 in 5 Aussies prepared to lie for loans
A damning new report has shone a light on the growing issue of multifaceted and complex loan-seeker fraud in the domestic mortgage market.
LENDER • Thu, 22 Sep 2022
International borrowers wary of Aussie rate rises
Expats, visa holders and non-residents buying Aussie property should help create some market strength, but caution prevails after recent rate increases.
LENDER • Mon, 19 Sep 2022