Home Loans & Mortgages

Most mortgage lenders have obeyed demands that they stop charging excessive fees for closing a mortgage. In January, the Financial Services Authority (FSA) told lenders that they would have to justify raising mortgage “exit” fees. The FSA said if they could not do so by 28 February, then they would have to agree to charge [...]

That brings up a few questions for the Prime Minister.

So Julia Gillard, how will you sort out this mess? In particular….
How will you overturn the ability of the banks to bleed the “hard-working families” white and take most of their pay packets through high margins?
How do you plan on stopping the coming wave of foreclosures and the homelessness of hard-working Australians?
How will you keep the non and bank mortgage sectors apart and return then to a truly competitive picture to reduce interest rates.
How will you ensure that a new raft of mortgage players can easily enter the mortgage market to drive down interest rates?
If the HSCB bank in the UK can provide mortgages on a margin of 0.49%pa why do our banks need a margin over six times that amount?
When will Labor stop encouraging in anti-competitive behaviour?
How will you break the Big Four Bank Cartel?

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 [...]

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?

The global home loan credit squeeze is a “serious crisis” that is not over yet and will have an impact on government budgets, the IMF’s outgoing head Rodrigo Rato said in an interview published overnight. Speaking to the Financial Times from Washington, IMF Managing Director Rato said: “Policymakers should not think that the problems will [...]