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Top 6 Strategies On How To Increase Borrowing Capacity For 2025

How To Increase Borrowing Capacity [To Offset Impacts of Rising Rates].Are you planning to make the most of lower property prices and buy a home or investment...

Tips for Buying Property With Family: Unpacking Property Share Loans and More [2025 Home Loan Advice]

Buying a house jointly with parents or other family members in Australia makes it easier to enter the property market. In 2025, with higher property prices...

Terms and Conditions To Consider When Signing a Contract of Sale in QLD

The Residential Contract of Sale in QLD. When you're in the stages of negotiating buying your home, there's so much to consider. You can make an in offer one...

How To Make An Offer On A House [2025 Step By Step Guide]

Learn advanced strategies and tools in this 12 steps guide to getting your offer accepted. Buying property is something we only do occasionally, at most, in...

How to Check the Value Of Your House [3 strategies]

How to find out what a house is worth Do your research using these three strategies, on how to find out what a house is worth in the market right now. Doing...

A plan for extra mortgage repayments is non negotiable [explainer + case study]

Making extra mortgage repayments to fast track your home loan down to zero is the single biggest action you can take towards becoming wealthier, sooner. There...

Benefits of Using a Mortgage Broker in Brisbane [2024 Guide]

Benefits of Using a Mortgage Broker in Brisbane Brisbane’s property market is growing more dynamic and competitive every month. With increasing prices and...

How to Buy a House in QLD Step by Step [2024 Complete Guide]

How to Buy a House in QLD Step by Step Guide. Learn where to start and what to do next. In this guide, updated for 2024, I breakdown in detail the 21...

Buy your next home using a bridging loan [2025 Complete Guide]

A bridging loan allows you to buy the new home while giving you time to sell your current home. This guide updated for 2025, summarises all you need to know...

Making an offer on a house [5 winning strategies in 2021]

Go in armed with a plan to get your offered accepted. Are you are currently researching how to make an offer on a property, or perhaps you've experienced what...

Fixed or Variable Home Loan? | Which is best?

Fixing your entire home loan interest rate will cost you more. In 2021, banks are offering some very low fixed home loan rates. Many of you may be thinking...

Building and Pest Inspection – why you need it

A building and pest inspection is a critical check you need to arrange before you finalise buying a house in QLD. Here I explain why you need it and how it...

Is An Offset Account Worth It? [2025 Explainer + Case Study]

Home Loan Offset Accounts can save you money on a home loan, but only in the right circumstances. It is very common for people to have heard from friends or...

Lenders Mortgage Insurance [2022 Complete Guide]

You will pay Lenders Mortgage Insurance if you don’t have a 20% deposit saved when applying for a home loan. Here I explain what it is and how avoid it. As a...

Seven ways to manage your mortgage repayments [including COVID-19 mortgage freeze]

Seven options to help manage your mortgage repayments (and budget) through COVID-19, including the mortgage freeze. If you have a mortgage (or two) right now,...