Adelaide Bank's rebrand won't be 'dancing girls and elephancts', but it will promote broker use, Damian Percy has said.
Heritage Building Society is coupling its rebranding as a bank with widespread mortgage broker distribution.
Most brokers can't believe how simple vanilla commercial lending can be, and may easily be able add this new income stream to their home loan business, it has been claimed.
The ACCC is set to rule this week on a proposed merger that would see CBA acquire a large stake in Mortgage Choice.
Melbourne-based adviser Mark Davis has topped MPA’s Top 100 Broker list after settling a staggering $170m of home loans in 2010/11.
Unsold housing stock is nearing record levels, and would take nearly eight months to clear.
Melbourne-based adviser Mark Davis has topped MPA’s Top 100 Broker list after settling a staggering $170m of home loans in 2010/11.
Housing finance edged up in September, but a housing group has claimed the result masks weak demand for new homes.
Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) housing finance figures for September 2011 show in trend terms that the number of finance commitments increased for the fifth consecutive month; the September increase was 1.2 percent.
The Melbourne Cup RBA rate cut has already filtered through to a massive increase in customer enquiries, a WA broker has said.
Next year is unlikely to see the heralded return of credit demand, Commonwealth Bank has indicated.
First homebuyers are dominating mortgage enquiries, a broker has claimed.
The outlook is promising for residential real estate in Sydney in 2012. Business research and forecasting firm BIS Shrapnel says Sydney's housing market is set to regain momentum next year after a slump in 2010-11 following interest rate rises and slow economic growth.
More thought needs to be put into the practice and implications of an industry move to fee-for-service, according to LJ Hooker Finance's general manager Peter Bromley.
House prices in Austria are continuing to rise rapidly, fuelled by strong economic growth and declining mortgage interest rates.
ANZ has announced a $5.36bn full-year statutory profit, but said difficult business conditions will be here "for some time".
First home buyers are heading back to the market in droves, new figures suggest.
Unfortunately for the US Fed, its two day meeting which wrapped up this morning won't have much influence on the outlook for the US economy.
APRA has warned lenders on loosening credit standards in the face of weak mortgage demand.
Firstfolio has predicted the RBA rate cut will be a "litmus test" for the government's unilateral ban on exit fees.
For the last few years, the London property market has been one of the most talked about in the world. Before the crash it was talked about because of the rapid rate at which property prices were growing, especially prime properties, and the fact that first time buyers were being priced out of the market.
Stalling population growth has halted house price rises in large regional centres, but two are bucking the trend.
FirstMac has released a fixed income managed fund, and is encouraging brokers to diversify into the bond market.
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After the latest inflation figures released on Wednesday showed that the Australian economy is slowing, economists are now tipping an interest rate cut.
If valuers “get it wrong” they will often find themselves being sued by Lenders Mortgage Insurance companies who may be out of pocket after selling a property to recover funds lent on a loan that went bad.
In recent months, direct lender MyRate Home Loans has seen a number of valuations coming in below borrower expectations, and in some cases, they even come in lower than the purchase price paid only weeks earlier.
About 48 per cent of home seekers in Australia are still set to buy a first home according to a new first time buyer survey by RAMS Home Loans.
Funds manager Securcorp Ltd has delivered the final touches to its residential apartment project undertaken in the Townsville CBD, the $40 million Altitude in Walker Street.
This year's Financial News has listed the world's top 10 most expensive streets. From Hong Kong to Fifth Avenue residents are splashing out a jaw-dropping $78,000 a square meter for these prestigious addresses.
