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May 20, 2020

Banks & Lenders Calculate Income Differently

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It may seem easy to work out how much you earn, but when you are trying to get a mortgage to buy your first home you need to understand how the banks and lenders calculate your income differently from each other and it might be a bit different to how

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May 19, 2020

Why Are Low Deposit Home Loans Not Available Yet?

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It’s now been over three weeks since the Reserve Bank of New Zealand removed the loan-to-value-ratio (LVR) funding restrictions but we are still waiting for the banks to start offering low deposit home loans. The banks are now technically allowed to lend as much as they like. They could lend

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May 18, 2020

Kāinga Ora Offer First Home Grant

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If you’re a first-time home buyer, or a previous home owner and you’ve been making regular KiwiSaver contributions for 3 – 5 years, you may be eligible for a First Home Grant of up to $10,000. It’s effectively free money so you should at least see if you can get

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May 17, 2020

Why Can’t The bank Approve Your Home Loan?

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So you are sick of wasting money on rent and know that you can afford a home loan but the bank says it can’t approve your home loan. You have checked on the online mortgage calculators and it is quite within your budget. But the bank keeps saying you cannot

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May 11, 2020

Shared Ownership Helps Kiwi First Home Buyers

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First home buyers have always struggled to get onto the property ladder, but now with co-ownership there is another way. For many years in New Zealand parents have helped their children with a deposit or part of the deposit needed to buy their first homes. That helps some people, but

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