Tag Archives: Interest Rate Cuts

If you want to be happy with your mortgage loan, sack your ‘Big Four’ banks

Some things in mortgage lending never change. In an ongoing saga the Big Four banks have again been belted in a customer satisfaction survey that puts them well behind credit unions and building societies.

Interest rate cuts and desperate sellers draw cash assisted first home buyers

Australia’s housing market is showing signs of strong activity, spurred on mainly by bargain hunters and first-home buyers as sellers become desperate.

Mortgage interest rate cuts and first home owners grant increases build home sales

The sale of new homes rose strongly in October, the same month as Government assistance to first time owners was tripled and interest rates cut further, a survey shows. Yet despite the first monthly sales increase in four months for new homes, the housing industry says a recovery in the sector is still some way [...]