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Wizard boss tips investment property supporting mortgage sector

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2004
... are increasingly hitching their retirement to investment property rather than superannuation which will support the home loan industry in years to come, Wizard Home Loans executive chairman Mark Bouris said yesterday. Mr Bouris, speaking at a luncheon ...

Australians save pennies in anticipation of rate rise: Wizard

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAR 2004
... money into their mortgage. According to 85% of survey respondents, repayments would have to rise by 1% or more before home loan installments became a problem.

Home lending falls off in December

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2004
New home loans fell for the third month in a row in December as back-to-back interest rate hikes began to bite. But economists said the fall would not be enough to deter the Reserve Bank from raising rates again in coming months, given the overall strength ...

Australians abandon property investment plans

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2004
More than 100,000 Australians have abandoned plans to invest in property this year, according to research by Wizard Home Loans. The non-bank lender said research it commissioned found the number of Australians who planned to invest over the next 12 ...

Rate rise will have slowed home loan demand: economists

AAP  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2004
An unexpected interest rate rise from the Reserve Bank of Australia last November probably slowed housing finance applications that month, according to economists. The Australian Bureau of Statistics releases the November housing finance for owner occupation ...

Super rollover scheme promoter charged

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has laid charges against the promoter of a scheme allowing fund members to apply their preserved benefits towards the purchase of house and land packages on the Gold Coast. Mr Rocco Ferrantino ...

Home lending falls for first time in almost 12 months: ABS

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2003
Home loan approvals fell in October for the first time in almost a year, new figures showed today, driven by a drop in people buying established homes. But the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) said lending increased for building and buying new ...

Australians still hungry for property AMP indicator reveals

Despite the recent fall from grace of property marketer Henry Kaye as well as the plunge of home loan affordability to its lowest recorded level since September 1995, Australia remains as infatuated with property as ever, today's AMP Banking/REIA Home ...

Major banks begin increasing home loan rates

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2003
Three of Australia's major banks today announced increases to home loan lending rates after the Reserve Bank of Australia's decision to hike official rates earlier this week. The Commonwealth Bank of Australia Ltd lifted its variable home loan rate ...

Homeowners, government brace for rate rise

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2003
... property sector. Another 0.25 percentage point rate hike would add $30 to monthly repayments on the average $189,100 home loan, and likely be followed by at least one more hike by the middle of next year. New figures released by the Australian Bureau ...