There’s nothing quite as exciting as receiving a shiny set of keys to your very own home. The thrill of knowing it’s all yours. The freedom to be able to do what you like with it. Nothing compares!

If you’re an aspiring first home buyer, the new First Home Loan Deposit Scheme may help you reach your homeownership goal sooner. Here’s what you need to know.

The First Home Loan Deposit Scheme explained

On the 1st January 2020, the Australian Government laun...

Brisbane
 We’ve been waiting in the wings for about a decade – hoping it’s our time to shine and rocket up the property value charts. We’ve watched Sydney and Melbourne go from strength to strength while our property owners have generally been eking out modest gains at best. Positive moves, to be sure, but not head-turningly stellar.
It seems the long post-mining-boom hangover, which fed into diminishing employment numbers and plummeting net intersta...

Australia’s housing value rebound continued into 2020 with the CoreLogic national home value index up by 0.9% over the first month of the year. This now takes the annual growth rate to 4.1%; the fastest pace of growth for a twelve month period since December 2017.

Housing values rose in January across every capital city and rest-of-state region, apart from regional South Australia, where values held firm over the month. According to CoreLogic head of...

Buying your first home or investment property is exciting! Like planning for a holiday, you start researching about the fun things you want to do. Out of excitement, you also start looking up other activities not in the original plan, instead of researching the basics, like accommodation and transportation options. Buying a property is the same, it requires the same level of commitment towards research. But where to start? We’ve put together the essen...

Happy new year! How are your new year’s resolutions looking so far? Have you taken the first step to achieving your goals during the first few days of 2020? Maybe we can help! Of course, we probably can’t motivate you to lose weight or exercise more, but as your mortgage broker, we can help you achieve your property goals this year.

Don’t know where to start? Check out these property goals and how we can help you achieve them.

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The middle of the market in Brisbane is what’s now driving growth in property values as 2020 kicks off, according to the latest Home Values Index out Thursday.

The Index saw Brisbane log a 0.7 per cent change in home value in December, to end 2019 with an annual rise in dwelling values of 0.3 per cent.

The median value for the greater Brisbane region ended the year at $497,491, spurred by a big jump of 2.4 per cent in the December quarter.

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Buying your first home is an exciting time! But like any first-timer, it is also easy to make mistakes. As mortgage brokers, we are dedicated to helping you have a smooth, and even enjoyable, time throughout the home buying and settlement process. Here are 4 common traps that you should look out for when you are buying your first home, and how you can avoid them!

1. Relying on family and friends for advice

   Your family and friends are often the...