The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has again remained cautious, leaving the cash rate on hold at 1.50% during their April 2018 rate review meeting. Rates have now been on hold since October [...]
“I have checked my borrowing capacity using a calculator online and found that I can borrow $xxx,xxx – why is this not my actual borrowing capacity when I go speak to a [...]
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has again remained cautious, leaving the cash rate on hold at 1.50% during their March 2018 rate review meeting. However, two of Australia’s ‘big [...]
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has commenced 2018 by leaving the official cash rate on hold at 1.50% during their first rate review meeting for 2018. The cash rate has now been on hold since [...]
The start of 2018 has coincided with Australian lenders dropping their variable and fixed rates even further than what they ended 2017 with. In 2017, we saw non-major lenders drop their interest [...]
There is always a great deal of debate in the media around whether borrowers (more specifically, first home buyers) should choose to leave their interest rate variable, or go fixed (or a [...]
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) ended their last cash rate review board meeting of the year the same way as all other board meetings in 2017 – by leaving the official cash rate on hold [...]
Yesterday, while the nation was preparing to watch the race that stops the nation, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) board opted once again to leave the cash rate on hold (at a record low of [...]
Australian lenders are continuing the theme of offering providing more attractive offers to first home buyers as owner-occupier lending continues to be the area of focus for them. In November, [...]
In the media, first home buyers are seeing many different views by economic experts on which direction they think interest rates are headed. For this reason, many aspiring & current first [...]
