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Lenders Cut Interest Rates

Posted on by Laze Spasevski
Lenders Cut Interest Rates
More than 65 lenders, including the big four banks, have cut their interest rates following the Reserve Bank of Australia’s decision to reduce the cash rate from 4.10% to 3.85%. This will mean lower repayments for the typical variable-rate borrower – although the size of the rate cuts, and the dates at which they’re taking effect, is varying from lender to lender. Here are three tips...
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How Housing Has Changed Since Covid

Posted on by Laze Spasevski
How prices, rents and rates have changed over the past five years
Five years on from the start of the covid-19 pandemic, the property market is in a very different place, reflecting how housing has changed since covid. When the pandemic started, some banks predicted a crash in property prices. Instead, the national median price fell just 1.7%, before rebounding. By March 2025, the national median was 38.4% higher than in March 2020, according to CoreLogic...
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Variable-rate Loans Scaled to New Heights of Popularity

Posted on by Laze Spasevski
Variable-rate loans scaled to new heights of popularity, as demonstrated by the dramatic shift in borrowing trends. In March 2020, at the start of the pandemic, 13.38% of new borrowers chose fixed-rate loans and 86.62% chose variable. But in March 2024, a staggering low of only 1.40% of new loans were fixed, compared to 98.60% variable. This is based on the report by the Australian Bureau of S...
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Rates are Lower Than Expected

Posted on by Laze Spasevski
Despite the interest rate rises that have occurred since last year, rates are lower than expected. The number one contributing factor to this is the “strong competition between lenders”, according to the Reserve Bank. Between May 2022 and June 2023, the cash rate increased by 4.00 percentage points. But during that same period, the average interest rate for outstanding variable-rate loans in...
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