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Archives for August 2011

Thinking about online home loans

I don't know about you but it's hard to imagine life without online banking. Being relatively quick and at your fingertips, it's just so convenient, you almost wonder how we got on without it! But the reality is that online banking hasn't been around … Read more

Use a mortgage broker

  Estimates vary but we know mortgage brokers handle at least a third of all home loan applications in New Zealand today, with some estimates going as high as half of all applications. Either way, mortgage brokers are an increasingly popular … Read more

How to work out your mortgage repayment

Probably one of the most important and certainly one of the first questions people ask us is what will the repayment on mortgage be? The answer is very simple and depends on three basic variables - the amount you end up borrowing, the interest rate … Read more

Four tips for your home loan application

  If you've never been through the process before, putting together your home loan application can be quite a daunting and challenging task. And even though there's a mountain of information available online about home loans there's still a lot … Read more

NZ economy in relatively good shape

With the state of the global financial markets over the last few weeks you’d be forgiven for thinking that the world as we know it is coming to an end!! The public (government) debt crisis in both the USA and Europe has sparked a major drop in … Read more

The only way is up, baby!

Who can forget Yazz from the summer of 1988. I thought her song was great then, I think it's cheesy now but if you're wondering about interest rates in 2011 then the sentiment of the song is spot on! The clear expectation over the last 12 months has … Read more