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Home Loan Exit Fees: Will mortgage “exit fee” ban undo homebuyers

Mortgage exit fees are the name given to deferred establishment fees, these fees are to offset bank costs for setting up the loan in the first place.
They have a long standing history of being charged, even though one would reason that this was the purpose of charging interest rates [to cover the cost of such work.]
By deferring the establishment fees, and letting them disappear after the loan was 5 years old, or even less, it had three effects.

Homes are still selling despite Brisbane house prices heading south.

The number of properties sold in Brisbane has slumped by 18.6 per cent in the past 12 months – the worst property market decline recorded in Australia. Sales were down 10,000 compared with the same period last year. Just 40,868 homes changed hands during the year, compared with 50,211 in the 12 months to October [...]

Mortgage Interest Rates Frozen Over For Christmas

We have a housing shortage and we need more residential construction and the Government needs to ensure that. Home buyers need an incentive to build rather than buy established to get more homes. Its not rocket science.