Home Loans & Mortgages

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.

Australia’s financial markets were taken by surprise when the tipped 0.5% cash rate reduction was doubled to a massive 1%pa reduction to 6%pa. According to Mr Mortgage said that this was the largest rate reduction since the early 1990′s and shows that the last interest rate rise was one too many, and that the RBA is now [...]

The Green bank fees and interest rate agenda
The Greens have bills before parliament to:
Regulate interest rate rises by ensuring banks charge no more than a fixed amount above a base rate,
Force banks to offer basic, free transaction accounts to all customers,
ban Bank ATM withdrawal fees and to cap mortgage exit fees.

The Reserve Bank of Australia Board meets today to decide the fate of homeowners home loan rates, and whether to raise interest rates Our tip is that home loanrates will stay as is. The RBA will not raise the official cash rate till the picture of the Australian and World Economies becomes clearer. Sudden collapse [...]

In any event the ANZ and National Australia Bank [NAB] have already scrapped mortgage exit fees, while Westpac Banking Group chief executive Gail Kelly told a Senate committee into banking competition in January that a ban was “not an overly big deal”. But was she telling the truth?
Because on theWeeend she was , saying that that’s a poor policy response by the Government.