Economy

Australian economic growth is projected to reach almost 3 per cent in 2018, but the possibility of plummeting house prices presents the country’s “largest domestic risk”.

A new survey is asking mortgage brokers for their thoughts on channel conflict, and whether they have been affected by lenders directly approaching and refinancing their clients.

Analysts are confident Bank of Queensland can restore its home lending to system growth after a fall in broker-originated loans drove a 3 per cent reduction in its mortgage book over 12 ...

Global consumer credit reporting agency Equifax, which last year acquired Veda, has announced senior leadership changes in its Australian business.

The performance of Australian residential mortgage-backed securities deteriorated over the first quarter of 2017, Moody’s Investors Service has reported.

The former head of bank intermediaries at Suncorp, Steven Degetto, is to join a leading provider of Lenders Mortgage Insurance as chief commercial officer.

It could take ‘typical’ first home buyers 40 years to save enough for a Sydney home deposit, a new report has found.

Applications to refinance will become paperless in three Australian states as the transition to electronic transactions is rolled out.

The Reserve Bank has announced its cash rate call following its monthly board meeting today.

Suncorp Bank has revealed that it has reduced the time taken to change the interest rate on a customer’s home loan from three days to under 20 minutes.