Pre-Approval • Property Security • Home Buying Property Declined After Pre Approval? Why Pre-Approved Doesn’t Mean Every Property Is Approved A property declined after pre approval can come as a nasty surprise. You may already know roughly how much a lender is prepared to lend, but the actual property still needs to meet the lender’s
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Investment Property • Keeping Your Home • Next Home Can You Turn Your Current Home Into an Investment Property? You have outgrown your current home, found somewhere else you would rather live — but you are not quite ready to sell the old place. So can you simply keep it, rent it out and turn
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Home Loan Pre-Approval • House Hunting • Buying Property Your Home Loan Pre-Approval Has an Expiry Date — Here’s What Can Change Before You Buy Getting home loan pre-approval can make the property search much easier. You have an indication of what a lender may be prepared to lend and a clearer price range to
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First Home Buyers • Housing Market • August 2026 First Home Buyers in 2026: Are Investors Finally Stepping Back? Something interesting is happening in Australian home lending. Mortgage activity has slowed, investor borrowing has fallen sharply, and first home buyers are proving more resilient than many expected. In Victoria, the change is even more noticeable.
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Buying a Home • Conveyancing • Australian Property What does a conveyancer actually do when you buy a home? Buying a home comes with a small army of people: the real estate agent, your mortgage broker, the lender, perhaps a building inspector — and then someone asks whether you’ve sent the contract to your conveyancer.
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Loan Location • Property Market • Auction Results Auction clearance rates are rising — but this still doesn’t look like a property market boom Australia’s preliminary capital-city auction clearance rate has climbed to an 11-week high. That sounds bullish until you look at what is happening underneath it: clearance rates remain historically soft, auction volumes