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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.

QLD New Homes: Building development costs to fall $20,000

Premier Bligh said that she wanted young Queenslanders to be able to afford a home, and in fact wants all Queenslanders to have the dream [of homeownership] within their grasp.
Property Industry experts say that infrastructure charges levied by the Queensland Government had increased development costs by 35 per cent.
The reforms are expected to be implemented in the first half of 2011.

House price rises run out of steam as mortgage rates rise bites

House prices are topping out in most Capital cities as the constant talk of more hikes in mortgage rates, both from the Reserve bank of Australia and major banks saying that their margins are being eroded in the funds market, and they will be moving to preserve then. Housing Affordability dips as house prices lift [...]