Home Loans & Mortgages

Kevin.Rudd’s increase of the first home owners grant is about shoring up jobs and the economy, and increasing home loan activity for buyers and sellers.

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.

Mortgage Lenders Go Green by reducing and offsetting carbon emissions in home loan processing. Are you concerned about reducing your carbon footprint? Well now the mortgage lender industry wants you to consider reducing carbon emissions by supporting mortgage lenders who offer a carbon-neutral home loan. Many mortgage companies are choosing to go carbon neutral, offsetting their [...]

Mortgage offset accounts give you a far better [effective] rate of return, and a rate of return above inflation. Savings accounts in effect lose you money, but an offset home loan can give you a return of 9 per cent, says Clare Francis. Not one bank is paying a positive return on its standard savings [...]

Bendigo Bank wants to expand wealth management with its $1.2 billion bid for wholesale customer darling Adelaide Bank. Bendigo and Adelaide, which hold the top two positions in Roy Morgan’s poll of banking customer satisfaction, will become a $4 billion company and break into the top 70 listed companies in Australia after the merger. Bendigo [...]