How Do I Get A Home Loan When I’m an Expat? Recently I was helping an expat client get a home loan. She is living and working overseas and wanted to buy a property that would be an investment in the short term and be her home when she finally came home. Makes sense right?…
Self-Managed Super Fund for Investment Property has been rising lately here at Mortgage World Australia. Our clients, on the advice of their accountant or their financial planner, get in touch with us about how much they can borrow to invest in property through their Self-Managed Super Fund. From a lending point of view, the number…
How Can I Get A Home Loan While On Parental Leave? A client, Tracy and Nathan, had come to me and were looking to refinance their home loan. There’s nothing unusual in that, except that they had just had their first baby. Tracy was on maternity leave which meant that they were looking for ways…
During the Covid years when interest rates were low, a lot of investors and buyers put down a deposit on unregistered land with the idea that once the developer registered it, they could take advantage of record low interest rates and build a house as part of the development. Unfortunately, with the rates rising 4.25%…
What Are The Steps To Buying A Property Through A Self-Managed Super Fund (SMSF)? The team here at Mortgage World Australia does a lot of loans for investors. They also buy real estate through their self-managed super funds. So we do a lot of SMSF loans. The reasons one might be buying a property with…
5 Borrowing Myths: Busted. I don’t know if you remember the show ‘Mythbusters,’ where they took urban legends and put them up to the test to see if they were real. Recently I had a prospective client ring up and ask if I could get him a home loan while he was on probation at…
The Most Common Reason That You Can’t Get The Best Interest Rate. One of my team members pointed out to me the other day that according to Equifax, 40% of the credit active population have a credit score of ‘average’ or ‘below average’ – a single default will place a consumer in this category. Another…
The Mortgage Brokers Guide on How to Upsize into a Bigger House (Without all the stress and effort) Recently a few clients got in touch, basically asking the same question. They’d like to move to a bigger house and they wanted to know what the smoothest path was from a financing perspective. There are two…
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