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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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April 27, 2020

The 2-Step Approach Needed To Buy A Family Home

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It was a year ago when Justin first approached us to ask about arranging finance to buy a family home. The situation was not simple due to having two defaults listed on the credit report, and income was marginal too. But Justin was determined to buy a family home and

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April 6, 2020

How Important Is Your Bank Account Conduct?

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When you apply for any loan the lender will look at your credit score to determine if you have good or bad credit, but when you are looking at getting a home loan the lenders will also look at your bank account conduct to see how good you are at

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April 6, 2020

Buying Your First Home Has Always Been Difficult

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My name is Stuart Wills and I have been a mortgage broker in Auckland since 1997, Over that time I have spoken to a lot of people that are buying a first home or trying to buy a first home, and in all of those years I can say it

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March 30, 2020

Many First Home Buyers Struggle With Deposits

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Does This Sound Like You? Many first home buyers struggle with deposits. You know that you can afford the repayments and often they look lower than what you are paying in rent. Buying a home seems like an obvious thing to do except the banks require a larger deposit than

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March 16, 2020

Why Smart People Have Redundancy Protection Cover

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When most Kiwis get a mortgage the mortgage broker and often the bank staff will ask them about mortgage protection insurance. They should explain that it’s a good protection to have so that you and your family can keep a roof over your heads should something go wrong and you

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March 16, 2020

ANZ Will Allow Low Equity Premiums To Be Added To Loans

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While most banks apply a low equity margin to home loans where the deposits are less than 20%, ANZ has charged low equity premiums which are a one-off fee rather than an ongoing margin added to the interest rate that you pay. One of the problems with the fee was

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