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Cheapest mortgage rates

We now have the cheapest mortgage rates...ever! If you're asking yourself, "is now a good time to buy" as far as interest rates go, we've got the cheapest mortgage rates we've ever had.  Let's put it in perspective and compare dollars for dollars on what a mortgage interest could have cost you at 6.00% and what it would cost you today at 2.95% which should help you get an idea what a mortgage repayment will cost. Mortgage 1 If you had a mortgage of $500,000 over 30 years at 6.00% your fortnightly repayment would be $1383 and you would [...]

2020-11-15T22:25:33+13:0017/05/2020|Categories: Blog, Home Loans|Tags: , , , |
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Lower Mortgage Rates

Lower Mortgage Rates? On Monday 12th August 2019 the OCR was reduced to only 1% which dictates what our retail mortgage rates are.  With the latest reduction in the  OCR will we see much lower mortgage rates and more flexible lending criteria?. Firstly, let's take a look at what OCR means, and for those of you who are maybe more technically savvy than financially savvy, OCR in this case does not mean Optical Character Recognition, but rather the Offical Cash Rate! Here is a quick video from the Reserve Bank of New Zealand that will explain what the OCR does. [...]

2019-08-21T20:14:28+12:0021/08/2019|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , , |
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Find a Mortgage Broker

If you want to find a mortgage broker when you're looking for a home loan, then here are some tips to choosing a broker, especially if you do not have an existing working relationship with a mortgage broker already. 1. Establish Trust Firstly, you need to find a mortgage broker you can trust. If you don't already use a broker, ask around, ask people you know who have used a broker before, and get a recommendation. Getting a recommendation from someone you know is one of the best "trust" measurement tools you can use, after all, you wouldn't recommend anyone [...]

2019-01-21T15:28:03+13:0021/01/2019|Categories: Blog, Home Loans|Tags: , , |
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Best bank mortgage

Who has the best bank mortgage? Who has the best bank mortgage is an important question when you are looking to buy a home or refinance a current home, but it may not be a bank at all, but rather a Non-Bank lender who are who are not banks, more defined, not a registered trading bank. The leading trading banks have the majority of mortgage lending in New Zealand, and also they give us a sense of security when it comes to lending.  We can walk into their offices, talk face to face with staff, see their fleet vehicles driving around [...]

2018-09-20T12:13:33+12:0020/09/2018|Categories: Blog, Home Loans, Mortgage Finance|Tags: , , , , , , |
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Sweetening the home loan deal

Banks have been throwing everything they can to keep lending and it has been harder for them in recent times with the changed and property lending restrictions. SWEETENING THE HOME LOAN DEAL If you have been a buyer in the property market over recent years, you may have been offered some additional incentive that we (or your mortgage broker) would have talked to you about when your home loan was approved. The bank would offer some form of enticement to accept the loan offer from them, even as far as to offer cash towards legal costs or other costs.  It’s [...]

2017-03-11T11:08:09+13:0011/03/2017|Categories: Home Loans, Mortgage Finance|Tags: , , |
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