Do you ever worry about how on earth YOU (or your children) will ever: • Pay off those enormous uni fees? • Move out of home? • Find a job they enjoy working in long enough to create some decent work place skills? • Enter the property market? • Build a different life in retirement […]

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With the holiday season upon us, many have the time to consider their employment options. The holiday break brings hopes for a fresh outlook and a new employer as one of their new year’s resolutions.   Here are some interesting facts about employment statistics and job hopping:

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Through tears and triumphs, ‘the race that stops a nation (TM)’ has cemented its position as a revered sporting, social and cultural event that continues to play a significant role in defining Australia’s national identity.

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1. Pay it off quickly The longer you take to pay off your home, the more you are going to pay. There are many strategies to reduce your loan, but most of them come down to one thing: Pay your loan off as fast as you can. For example, if your loan amount is $300,000 […]

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Why you should do it and what can happen if you don’t… Case Study Samantha and Luke had been married for a few years and were both bringing in a comparable wage. They were equally contributing to their living expenses, including their mortgage and utilities. Luke paid the mortgage and Samantha paid the utilities, groceries […]

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Over the last four years the number of investment property loans in Australia has grown by 37% compared to an increase of only 4% in the number of owner occupied loans. These are the latest findings from the Roy Morgan Research Consumer Single Source survey of approximately 45,000 people per annum.

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The waiting game may cost you more… Some of our clients who didn’t want to pay LMI in the last 12 months are NOW facing a much bigger challenge. The property they were saving for has gone up 3 times more than the LMI they avoided paying!

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Most of us worry about our future, and most of us are waiting until the mortgage is paid off before we do anything about it. Sydney University anthropologist and author Stephen Juan said it now took two incomes and 30 years to pay off the average home. Half a century ago, it was one income and […]

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