It's the end of the road for 900,000 borrowers on interest-only loans, as they'll be automatically switched to principal and interest loans this year. Now's the time to check whether or not you should start considering other options.
We're midway through January and you've managed to stay sane. Well, we hope so anyway! Here are seven budget-friendly ideas that'll help keep the kids off their screens throughout the last two weeks of school holidays.
Each year we make New Year's resolutions that focus on our health and wellbeing. But how often do we think about improving our finances? Here are five financial New Year's resolutions that could help you start 2019 with a bang!
A big four bank almost overhauled its broker remuneration model so that the cost of mortgage broking services would be transferred to the customer, the royal commission heard. Here's how to prevent that from happening.
There's been a couple of fairly big property-related announcements recently, including a stamp duty overhaul in NSW and NAB increasing interest rates. Let's break down what they could mean for you.
When it comes to paying off your mortgage, many of us are in the dark as to where we should be making significant savings. A good place to start? Cutting down on ‘micro-transactions’.
Property owners and prospective first home buyers are increasingly in need of clear guidance on home lending as the housing markets in Melbourne and Sydney begin to cool, says the Housing Industry Association.
With housing values falling across half of Australia's capital cities over the past year it can be all too easy to forget many regions are doing well. Here's where property prices have recently experienced healthy growth.
It's an unfortunate fact of life: as you grow older, your memory is likely to fade. While you'll probably be forgiven for forgetting the odd anniversary, the stakes are much higher when it comes to keeping track of your finances.
It may seem as though every time you open a newspaper there's another story about the sky falling in on the property market. But here's why it's being labelled the “house price fall we had to have”.