How high will interest rates go in 2024?
The thirteen Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) rate hikes since May 2022 have made the last two years gruelling for anyone with a home loan.
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Experts predict interest rate hold from RBA in May 2024
With the Consumer Price Index (CPI) coming in hotter on inflation than economists expected this quarter, doubts about a cash rate cut by year’s end are mounting.
The median house price in Australia hits a record high $1.113 million
Released this week, the Domain House Price Report 2024 announced a new record for the median house price in Australia’s combined capital cities – $1,112,575 – after a year-on-year (YOY) gain of 8.9% in March 2024.
NAB drops interest rates on its Tailored Home Loan by up to 1.08%
NAB is the first of the Big Four banks to drop interest rates on select home loans this year, with a cut of up to 1.08% now available on some of its variable home loans.
How you could shrink your home loan rate as property prices boom
Australian homeowners could be sitting on the opportunity to blast their home loans with a shrink-ray after national home prices rose nearly 40% in just four years.
Worried about overpaying for your property? How to buy a home and get value
Buying a home can have pitfalls and perhaps the biggest is misreading the property’s value. If you misread value, you’re likely to over pay and your home loan can end up being much bigger than it should be.
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Unloan opens books to new borrowers on self-discounting home loan
From today, CommBank’s fully digital home loan, the Unloan Variable, scraps its refinance-only rule and opens its books to new borrowers.
CommBank launches ‘Unloan’, the digital home loan for young buyers
Important update: As of 8 April 2024, Unloan products are now available to new borrowers, removing the previous refinance-only restriction.
The secret backdoor to better home loan rates with a big bank
Home owners across the country are feeling the bite of increased home loan repayments since the RBA began its war on inflation, and we are all looking for ways to save extra cash where we can.
RBA hold confuses the home loan decision: Should you go fixed, variable or split?
With the Reserve Bank holding interest rates at 4.35% this March, how should home buyers now consider their home loan interest rate?