Home Loans & Mortgages

The Commonwealth Bank of Australia CEO gives his version of Banana-gate to signal mortgage rate increases. Whether you believe that the banks are paying more for their money or not is irrelevant, Australia’s banks are gearing up to ramp up rates over and above any further RBA mortgage interest rate hikes. The biggest reason for [...]

It is beginning to look like Australia will dodge the recession bullet. Australians’ confidence in the future have risen its best level in nearly two years, as home buyers and homeowners grew more optimistic about an early economic recovery. A predicted slide in house values hasn’t happened, and in many parts of the economy its business as usual.

The banks have been tightening their credit guidelines on home buyers for over the last year and this is stangling building companies cashflow and construction activity slowed for the 11th month straight.

The Commonwealth Bank Of Australia is the first bank in Australia to denounce the no deposit loan as not meeting their new tightened guidelines. But will that eventually come back as jingle mail to haunt them if other lenders won’t refinance their bad loans?

Accumulative home loan mortgage interest rate rises, coupled with higher home prices around Australia have pushed housing affordability to its lowest level on record. The Commonwealth Bank of Australia – Housing Industry Association (HIA) Quarterly Review of Housing Affordability for the September quarter showed the index falling 2.1 per cent to be 8.3 per cent lower [...]