Analysis

The mortgage industry is fast-paced and demanding, so finding ways to remain competitive requires taking advantage of new tools as they become available. Artificial intelligence (AI) offers ...

The landscape of Australian inflation has been persistent trouble for consumers as the cost of living soars and many wages are unable to grow in line with it.

The results of Momentum Intelligence’s 2022 Third-Party Lending survey of residential mortgage brokers have been released, revealing which lenders are the best-performing in the third-party ...

ANALYSIS: The Bank of England became one of the first major economies to increase rates since the pandemic first hit, but will Australia do the same?

The director of private commercial lender Semper, Andrew Way, reveals there has been a noticeable increase in applications for residual stock loans during the third quarter and why he sees ...

The ratings agency has outlined its new methodology for analysing reverse mortgage risks.

The average property investor pays hundreds and thousands of dollars in taxes under existing arrangements, with the burden set to “blow out even further” if Labor is elected to government, ...

A new study from the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) seeks to demonstrate how applying limits to loan-to-value ratios (LVR) helped de-risk the nation’s mortgage market.

With Westpac and its subsidiaries bowing out of the SMSF lending space, the future of this niche offering is uncertain.

CBA’s decision to offload its wealth business should come as no surprise to anyone. Running a “simple” outfit has now become the chief strategy for three of the four biggest banks in the ...

Too much red tape in the mortgage industry can actually leave consumers in a worse position, as some markets are starting to discover.

Not too long ago, Australia’s big banks were asked by a parliamentary inquiry when they planned to introduce tracker mortgages. A quick look at the troubled Irish market will show ...

About 73 per cent of Australia’s exports go to Asia. China is our biggest export partner. But with fresh doubts cast over US-China trade negotiations, what could a knock to China’s growth do ...

A mortgage crackdown in the former British colony is creating serious consequences for borrowers and led to the emergence of a new breed of lender.

Every year, the federal budget whips journos into a ritualistic frenzy of anticipation that I still find odd. This year’s edition proved to be pretty dull reading.