7 housing and mortgage trends since the pandemic ended
Reading the property and home loan market can be difficult without considering what’s already happened.
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Australians think these 3 cities are 2024's hottest housing markets
Property experts expect housing values to rise nationally by at least 5% this year, but hearing it from ordinary Australians, too, just hits differently.
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Meet Sucasa: the Robin Hood of home loans for first time buyers
If you are an aspiring first time home buyer, here’s some good news for a change. There’s a new lender in the home loan space and they are hoping to help you break into home ownership faster, easier, and cheaper.
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How to make an early offer on a home this autumn
Domain’s latest home auction report suggests there’s positive momentum before the usually busy autumn selling season, driven by growing seller confidence.
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Up your home loan game with this little-known lender
Young first-home buyers often enter the property market these days with the odds stacked against them: lunar home values, skyrocketing interest rates, and alien jargon. However, there’s an online lender in the space whose app aims to give you stellar home loans, straight up.
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More Aussies move to regions for housing affordability and lifestyle
Internal migration to regional Australia increased by 4.6 per cent over the last three months — its highest level since the September 2022 quarter and 14 percent above the pre-Covid average.
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Up variable home loan has 50 offset accounts. Could it fix your mortgage-life balance?
This article was updated on 1 March 2024 to reflect the Up Home Variable Rate dropping from 6.15% p.a. to 5.95% p.a.
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Mortgage shake up! Meet the lenders taking on the big banks in 2023
Aussie borrowers looking for lower rates, faster approval processes and flexible lending terms are deserting the big banks in earnest for more competitive lenders. But with so many different options available, which rival lenders really stand out from the pack?
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Where are we with Australia’s property? Westpac offers some insights
Below are a few highlights from the latest Westpac Housing Pulse report, which offers a quick view of the property market, prices, interest rates and general trends.
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Want a smaller home loan? Consider regional property spots below $650,000
It’s true that in the big cities, median property prices are very high and the home loan required for such properties is a sizable ask.
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