Article by Patrick Lynch, Head of Operations Whether you own or are thinking of buying a property, insurance may have come up. There are many different types of insurance, depending on whether the property is your home or investment, a house or apartment, etc. But is insurance necessary – and why does my Bank want […]
Why does the Bank want my property insurance details?
Is now a good counter-cyclical opportunity to buy property?
How does the current downturn, compare to previous downturns? In aggregate, property values throughout Australia have been falling for about 20 months. Some markets are performing better than others, and there are of course many ‘markets within markets’, but the sharpest declines have been in Melbourne and Sydney. Over the past 40 years, national housing […]
The near-perfect application?
Article by Patrick Lynch, Head of Operations Does the perfect application exist and how quickly can an application move through the process from lodgement to settlement? In the current Lending environment, we think 15 days for a refinance (no escalations) is extraordinary. So how did this one happen? It has to start with the applicant, […]