10-Sep-2018 | Finance, Home Loan
It goes without saying that homebuyers love low interest rates. The lower the interest rate the less the mortgage repayments on a particular house, right?
Well, maybe.
Lower interest rates also mean borrowers can service a bigger loan. In a competitive housing market that can push up prices, as we have witnessed this past decade.
So what’s really going on? Have low interest rates been good or bad for homebuyers?
03-Sep-2018 | Finance, Home Loan
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) and the major trading banks may play the most visible role in setting interest rates, but in many cases they are being reactive rather than proactive.
A wide range of external factors feed into their decision-making process, including in no small part, our collective behaviour as investors and savers, borrowers and consumers. Then there’s the rate of inflation and wages growth, foreign currency exchange, the economic health of our trading partners, and the interest rates paid by local banks to borrow money from overseas.
Suddenly it’s not so easy to figure out where interest rates are headed, even in the short term.
15-Aug-2018 | Finance, Home Loan
Access our Infographic that explains how falling interest rates may affect housing prices
