Home Loans - August 16th Buying A First Home? The Bank of Mum and Dad Can Help! Author: Martin Kovacs Could the Bank of Mum and Dad be your key to home ownership? Canstar explores what's involved. Over the past two years, house prices have soared. And although the housing market has now started …
Home Loans - August 16th First Home Buyers: What is KiwiBuild? What is KiwiBuild? Introduced in 2018, the purpose of KiwiBuild is to provide first home buyers with a pathway to homeownership by building affordable homes across the country. KiwiBuild homes have strict price caps and are …
Home Loans - August 10th Buying An Apartment? Body Corporate Changes You Need to Know About More and more people are choosing to live in apartments. But purchasing a property on a unit title comes with greater risks than buying a freehold property, due to the shared ownership model. But thanks …
Banking & Insurance - August 5th The Co-operative Bank: No.1 for Home Loan Satisfaction If you have a mortgage, it's likely to be the biggest expenditure in your household budget. And if you've refinanced your mortgage recently, it's likely to be an even bigger expenditure than a year ago. After …
First Home Buyers - August 1st Squirrel: What’s the Deal with Interest Rates and House Prices? First thing’s first. What’s the deal with interest rates? Last month, the Reserve Bank brought in its third 50-point Official Cash Rate (OCR) increase this year, taking it from 2% to 2.5%. At the same time, …
Home Loans - July 29th ANZ’s Good Energy Home Loan: Helping Kiwis Go Green What is ANZ's Good Energy Home Loan? ANZ's Good Energy Home Loan is a home loan top-up that can be used to pay for sustainable initiatives for your home. Through the Good Energy Home Loan, you …
First Home Buyers - July 20th Squirrel’s Launchpad: Helping Kiwis into First Homes If you're a prospective home owner, you'll know that one of the hardest parts of buying a first home isn't managing the mortgage, it's saving for the deposit. But thanks to Squirrel's Launchpad – a …
Home Loans - July 12th Property Investors: The Risk of Having All Your Eggs in One Lender’s Basket If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times – as a property investor, having all your eggs in one lender’s basket is an incredibly risky strategy. Until recently, you could kind of get away …
First Home Buyers - July 6th Squirrel: First Home Buyers – A Time to Buy Mortgage rates have peaked and the market has cooled. Squirrel's John Bolton explains why it's a good time for first home buyers to enter the market. Lately, there’s been a lot of talk about the shift …
First Home Buyers - June 14th Fixed or Floating Mortgage Rates? Over the ditch in Australia, floating rates tend to be lower than fixed mortgage rates. Therefore they are the mortgage rates of choice for most homeowners. But here in NZ, it's the other way around. Currently …
