There are thousands of potential home owners across Australia who will need a non-conforming home loan, when they decide the time is right to step off the rental rat wheel. A non-conforming home loan is for borrowers who don’t ‘conform’ to the lender’s usual criteria, and the rules about comparing non-conforming home loans probably don’t [...]

Consumer group Choice is well known for ‘keeping the (ahem) companies honest’. They recently claimed that you could save $70,000 over the life of a typical mortgage simply by choosing to take out a home loan with a credit union or non-bank lender, rather than one of the big banks. Today we check out the [...]

Your Loan to Value Ratio simply represents how much you owe on your home loan versus how much your home is worth. Today we check out the ins and outs of this aspect of home loans to help you understand how to use it as a strong financial ‘lever’!

Your home loan will probably have a greater influence on how you live your life than any other consumer product you have paid for. Here are 10 things that every home loan customer should know, whether you’re a first-timer or an old hand

Does Aussie’s ‘We’ll Save You’ campaign live up to it’s promise? We pick apart the campaign and its potential benefits to your home loan today.

Manly was awash with sun bleached hair, terry towelling shorts and designer threads on the weekend as the finals for the first Australian Open of Surfing got underway.

And while some people were lucky enough to walk down from their beachside apartments to get in on the action, others may have found they spent a good part of the afternoon looking for available car spaces.

With the success of shows such as Pimp My Ride and Punk’d, it seems that reality makeover programs that have an element of surprise are a hit among youth audiences.

It is, therefore, no wonder that school kids are taking the first bus home in order to catch a glimpse of cult TV show and MTV hit Cribs.

It seems that these days the word on every Aussie’s lips is mining, with news of the nation’s once-in-a-century resources boom travelling at record speeds across the nation.

And it is little wonder, given that so many people are finding everything from new job opportunities to true love in previously unheard of outback towns.

DIY renovations are something of an institution in Australia, with men and women of all ages getting out their tool kit and building materials in order to transform their house into a home. But despite its popularity, the DIY movement can be hard to keep up with, especially if you are only new to the [...]