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Buying a green car could save you thousands of dollars in fuel costs. Your finance company will give you a little pat on the back, too. Plenty of lenders reward your choice of a Green Car with a discount

It’s odd phraseology, you might think. But you’ve heard it once or twice before. What is it? Put very simply, these are the lenders who don’t lend to the fossil-fuel industry. Environmental and social responsibility are

From 1 January 2021, all Australian mortgage brokers will operate under the new Best Interests Duty was born in the aftermath of the Financial

Comparing apples with oranges doesn’t make sense. Comparison rates make it easier to find the right loan and to make advertised rates as transparent as

The Australian Lenders Mortgage Insurer, QBE, has just released their Australian Housing Outlook report for the next 3 years. At 48 pages, you might want to

Our Federal Government has been adjusting the guidelines around the writing-off of assets since the advent of

What does the Federal Budget’s tax cuts mean to home owners? A couple earning $55,000 each per annum will get an

Mortgage brokers have uttered the word ‘fog’ more times than most people do in a lifetime. But we’re not talking about the cool, misty damp that stops Boeings from

The mortgage industry is a wide, wondrous world with a language all of its own. One of the many acronyms flung about is ‘LVR’, which stands for ‘loan-to-valuation ratio’. Here’s what it means. If you need

When applying for finance on a home purchase, lenders like to see that at least 5% of your deposit can be counted as genuine savings.

LMI is Lenders Mortgage Insurance. It’s required when the value of a loan is more than 80 per cent of a property’s purchase price or property valuation if refinancing. In very basic terms, a lender considers

The Buy Now Pay Later sector is winning-over the youth demographic with the promise of instant gratification. Mortgage industry leaders are warning that