How To Get Your Lender to Lower Your Interest Rate?

Use a mortgage broker to get new valuations, lower rates and equity release to invest in property again - St George might be a good alternative

The Reserve Bank has kept the official cash rate at a record low of 1.5 percent, and while that doesn’t directly translate to lower interest rates on home loans, it’s still a good enough reason to see if you can get a better deal on your current loan. Here are some ways a mortgage broker can help more than your contact at your bank.

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Home Loan Finance for a Construction Loan is Complex

Many people think that finding the right property at the right price is the most difficult part of the process to property ownership. In fact, it’s securing the finance you need to buy the right property at the right price!

Previously, I wrote about a first home buyer on a single income, who changed mortgage brokers to get a better deal on her home loan [Single Income Family In Need of a First Home Loan?]. In that scenario, the applicant’s lender didn’t change — the broker did.

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How Buying a New Home is Safer & Better for Tax

While an established property in an established suburb is never a bad investment — older suburbs tend to be in higher demand and property values appreciate faster — there are more than a few reasons why the right new home could be a better investment.

Governments often consider Stamp Duty Concessions and Super Contributions to encourage not only First Home Buyers but also the building industry.

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Single Income Family In Need of a First Home Loan?

Separation Agreements Matter

With the volume of property bought and sold in Australia each week, you might assume getting a home loan is a straightforward process. Unfortunately, it’s rather complex. And not every lender approves applicants the same way, leading to some very different lending outcomes.

A mortgage broker understand what each lender is looking for and which one will suit your circumstances.

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Stamp Duty Lowers Capacity, BUT NSW Gov Concessions for First Home Buyers

Stamp duty is a “State based” tax levied on certain transactions, including the purchase of real estate. The rate you’ll pay varies in each state and territory.

As stamp duty is a tax, you cannot borrow money to cover it, though it can accommodated for by reducing the amount of your cash deposit and increasing your home loan to cover the difference. This may mean taking out lender’s mortgage insurance (LMI) [What is Lender’s Mortgage Insurance?] to compensate for your reduced deposit.

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First Home Owners Can Now Use Super for a Deposit on a Home Loan!

In last year’s 2017 budget, the federal government introduced a new measure to help first-home buyers gain a foothold in the property market: The “First Home Super Saver” (FHSS) scheme, which lets individuals use up to $30,000 of voluntary superannuation contributions as a deposit.

It’s a little complicated but if it helps you get into the property market you might find it worth it. Here’s the important information.

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Property Search and Discovery – What’s Involved & Who Does it?

Newcastle is the Epicentre of Growth

Sydney’s high property prices have pushed first home owners and property investors further out and increased demand on regional areas. While some people are looking to move out of the city to the Central Coast or Hunter regions, property investors are looking for the next growth area to invest in like the inner suburbs of Newcastle or low priced alternatives like Morisset and Cooranbong, where it is still close enough to commute to Sydney but house prices are low and increasing.

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Improve Your Property’s Value

Renovate, update or develop

There’s an old saying about buying the worst property in the best street, and that’s doubly true for property investors. Not because you want to rent out an old slum to tenants, but because with just a few low cost modifications, you can not only increase the rental you’ll get for it, but also improve your property’s value so you can start investing again.

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Contract Exchange vs. Settlement

Newcastle Buyers Agent - property investment training course and first home buyers support - Exchange, Cooling off & Settlement

When you first agree to buy a property, your offer and the vendor’s acceptance of that offer is not binding until both buyer and seller have exchanged contracts, but you’re not finished until settlement occurs. 

There are always technicalities during this “Cooling Off” stage so it helps to be aware of the process. It can be nerve racking for first home owners.

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Windale is Redfern Twenty Years Ago — Should You Invest?

Windale near Bennetts Green one of largest Harvey Norman stores - good property investment

Bad Rap, but close to Newcastle, Beaches and Lake!

Windale, a suburb of Newcastle, is portrayed as one of the most disadvantaged communities in NSW. It has some of the highest rates of unemployment, substance abuse and social housing in New South Wales but much of the social housing has already been sold to investors and first home owners and at VERY cheap prices!

Would you kick yourself if you didn’t invest in a property in one of the closest suburbs to Newcastle at these prices?

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