Tag: Home loans

Learn the tricks of the trade – how to navigate your home loan

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Home loans are hard. Really hard. And try as banks might to make it easier to navigate and despite all the info out there, it can be a bit murky. Thankfully, Andrew Walker, co-founder of Nano digital home loans, has laid a few bits bare. — For the hundreds of thousands of Aussies opting to refinance their home loan each year, most can agree that the application process can be long, tedious and stressful. In fact, 75% of Australians are more frustrated with the process than ever before, according to new research from Nano digital home loans. The traditional banking industry is riddled with outdated processes,legacy systems and confusing jargon. It is an industry that for too long has benefited the lender not the borrower. Unfortunately, many borrowers are reluctant to change from their traditional lender because the process can be lengthy, time consuming and riddled with hidden fees. To challenge the outdated approach to refinancing and home loan lending, Nano has launched The Inaction Figure to symbolise the many frustrations Australians experience with traditional lenders, including confusing jargon (72%) and too much paperwork (48%) as well as slow processes and hidden fees (55%). To help Australians make sense of the complex process, here are some tips on how best to navigate your home loan. TIP 1: Centralise your finances where you can Save yourself money by picking a loan that allows you to consolidate and manage your finances in one place, like Nano’s ‘offset sub account’. Centralising your finances can help you manage your… Read More

Aussie Home Loans’ guidance about the First Home Loan Deposit Scheme

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Want to buy a house? Most would say ‘lol, good luck’, but that doesn’t necessarily need to be the case; if you know what you’re doing and take the time to plan. One of the big wigs at Aussie Home Loans has some insights into new research that’s come out, highlighting the impact of confusion and uncertainty on the ability of aspiring first home buyers to realise their property ownership ambitions; with the array of grants and schemes intended to create greater opportunity seemingly adding to the complexity. Turns out 7-in-10 first home buyers want to take advantage of the current market conditions but don’t know how – and have a small freak out because of it. It’s hard to understand and even more difficult to get the confidence to bite the bullet, despite heaps of initiatives being developed to help first home buyers get on the property ladder. But it doesn’t need to be this way. As part of a new haul of research Aussie’s done, there’s a lot to know about looking before you leap and that comes in the form of a friendly little scheme by the government. Read on for more. As the next round of 10,000 applications under the First Home Loan Deposit Scheme (FHLDS) for the next financial year becomes available, enabling first home buyers to put down just 5 percent of the deposit needed, the findings showed a worryingly high proportion of first home buyers – over 8 in 10 – are not clear on what the scheme… Read More