While 2020 was the year many things in the world fell apart, it was the year everything came together for house hunters Caitlin and Joel, both 33.
In a year when just about every real estate record was broken, home buyers turned to mortgage brokers in droves. More than two-thirds – a record 66.9 per cent – of residential mortgages were written by brokers in 2021.1 That’s a leap of 6.8 per cent on the year before…
Lenders are helping parents boost their children’s buying power without putting their house or relationships on the line.
Many first home buyers now have access to a new government scheme that could get them into their first homes years sooner.
The history of Australian banking has always been dominated by the big four – ANZ, Commonwealth Bank, NAB and Westpac.