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Financial Assistance for First Time Home Buyers In QLD [2025 Guide]

QLD Offers Financial Assistance For First Time Buyers [2025 Guide] In this guide, we have compiled the full list of financial assistance programs on offer if...

Finding the Right Mortgage Broker in Brisbane

Are you looking to buy a home in Brisbane? This is an exciting time in your life, and you deserve a team around you that you can trust to help you make the...

The First Home Guarantee | 2025 Complete Guide For QLD

The hardest part of getting into the property market as a first time buyer is usually getting a deposit saved. To help, the Federal Government allows...

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...

First Home Vacant Land Concession QLD [2025 Guide]

The First Home Vacant Land Concession QLD saves you up to $10,675 on Transfer Duty. The First Home Vacant Land Concession QLD is a financial assistance...

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...

First Home Concession QLD [2025 Guide]

The First Home Concession QLD saves you up to $17,350 on Transfer Duty. The Queensland First Home Concession (or Stamp Duty Concession QLD) is a financial...

QLD Stamp Duty Exemptions and Rebates [2025 Complete Guide]

Queensland Government helps out Home Buyers with Stamp Duty Concessions. If you're buying a home or land in Queensland, you may be eligible for a saving on...

First Home Owners Grant QLD [2025 – Complete Guide]

First Home OwnersGrant QLD2025 Complete GuideStart The QuizA financial boost can go a long way in getting you onto the Queensland property ladder so to help,...

How To Refinance a home Loan | 2024 Complete Guide

How to Refinancea Home Loan2024 Complete GuideThere are many reasons why you may be interested in refinancing your home loan right now. Many of you may want...

21 Critical Home Loan Mistakes to Avoid

Home Loan Mistakes to Avoid If you're considering buying or building a home then you'll probably need a home loan. We've listed here the 21 most common home...

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...

Now’s probably a good time to buy an investment property – here’s why (October 2022)

Rents are higher and home values trending lower creating a window of opportunity to buy an investment property. If you have been considering buying an...

How to make an offer to buy property in this changing market (September 2022)

Making an offer to buy property? Here's what's changed post the COVID boom. The property market in the second half of 2022 is changing. We are beginning to...

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...

How a rate lock on your mortgage guarantees you a lower interest rate

How does a rate lock protect my interest rate? Imagine this. Interest rates are rising. If your lender raises their fixed rate loan, just before you...

Switch to an interest only investment loan to reduce your repayments.

Why it’s a good time to consider interest only investment loans Over the last few years with interest rates at record lows, higher rents and a strong...

Reduce your monthly debt repayments using debt consolidation

Why debt consolidation saves you money, The strategy is relevant if you have: An owner occupied home loan; AND At least one other debt such as credit / store...

Now is a great time to look at a lower variable rate home loan.

Why variable rate home loans are so good right now. With interest rates now rising, I recommend you look at strategies to put yourself in a better financial...

3 best ways to reduce mortgage payments

Get prepared for more rate rises with these 3 best ways to reduce your mortgage payments. With all the hype in the media right now of how high interest...

Interest rate rise special, May 2022

Hi everyone! Welcome to our special update for May 2022 on the RBA interest rate rise. As it's the first rate rise in 12 years, I wanted to make sure you all...

Guide to rentvesting to get into the property market

What is Rentvesting? Rentvesting is where you buy an investment property while continuing to rent the home you live in. It’s a great investment strategy for...

Home Loans for Self Employed Individuals

Home Loans for Self Employed Individuals 2023 Complete Guide for BorrowersDownload the Guide [gravityform id="12" title="false" description="false"...

How to build a house in Brisbane [2022 Step By Step Guide]

The Guide covers how to build a house step by step - from where to start, using Government Grants and getting a construction loan approved. There is nothing...

Buying an investment property using the equity in your home.

How to buy an investment property using your equity. Equity is powerful, how do I maximise its potential? With the property market still on the rise, many...

What is Lenders Mortgage Insurance [Explainer + case study]

What is Lenders Mortgage Insurance and how much will it cost? The basics are covered here. Lenders Mortgage Insurance can be a bit tricky to get your head...

How to buy an investment property with no deposit

So, you want to jump in and buy your first investment property, but have no deposit saved? Well, I am very happy to share that we have a tried and tested...

Home Renovation Loan [2023 Complete Guide]

How to pay for a Home Renovation [Guide for 2022]. Does your home need some sprucing up? A complete new kitchen with marble bench tops, a back deck or an...

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...

Property & home loan news, August 2021

Read my South East Queensland update for August 2021 Hi everyone! Alright, so this is our update for August 2021! I wanted to talk a little bit about a few...

Property & home loan news Australia, July 2021

Read my South East Queensland update for July 2021. When it comes to property and home loans, it can be over whelming to keep up to date with what is both...

Home Loan News in Australia June 2021

Read about home loan news in Australia for June 2021. This is an edited version of the regular YouTube update which you can watch here....

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...

Top 13 mistakes to avoid as a first home buyer QLD [2021 guide + case studies]

Avoiding these 13 mortgage mistakes as a first home buyer in QLD will save you money today and set yourself up for financial freedom tomorrow. Mistake 1:...

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,...

Home Loan Pre Approvals [When you do and don’t need one]

To successfully buy a home in the wild 2021 property market, you may just need a Fully Assessed Home Loan Pre Apprroval. Back before time (before Covid) most...