Buying your first home is not always that easy, so as a mortgage adviser I am sharing five tips to improve chances for first home buyers and enable them to buy a better home sooner. Let’s look first at the major challenges that first home buyers have, and then we will share some ideas that …
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We often look at the prices that houses are selling for and question if New Zealand houses too expensive. Most of us probably think they are, but what is too expensive? Let’s Get Some Detail What we decided to do was to look at how New Zealand house prices compare to the average prices around …
This is bad news for first home buyers! In a time when it is hard enough to save a deposit to buy your first home, the Reserve Bank is wanting to see bigger deposits as a way to protect the property market from a drop in house prices. The Reserve Bank plans to tighten LVR …
Let’s accept that buying your own home isn’t going to necessarily be easy, but it’s something that most Kiwi’s aspire to. There are a lot of benefits when you own your own home, and one of the best things is the feeling of control and knowing that you are not going to be asked to …
It’s not easy buying your first home with a small deposit and in many cases it can seem that home ownership is an impossible dream. You can speak with most banks and they just say “NO” that you need a bigger deposit, or some banks and mortgage advisers might suggest the First Home Loans scheme …
Changes to the First Home Products come into effect on 1 April 2021. This includes the First Home Grants and First Home Loans. What Are The Changes? The changes recently announced include: lifting the house price caps for both new properties and existing properties in those places where access to a First Home Grant or …
This Government had us waiting since the end of last year for the changes for first home buyers, and today they were finally announced It’s intended that the changes will mean house prices increase less quickly, but economists are not so sure. The Government believe that the changes will help open up more opportunities for …
As mortgage advisers we often see people on social media either praising a mortgage adviser for getting them a home loan after getting frustrated with the banks who said “NO” or saying that it’s easier and faster to get a home loan approved directly with a bank. There is of course more to this that …
Many people will ask family and advisers if they should buy a house now or save a bigger deposit. This is a question that all first home buyers ask, and not just in New Zealand. In 2020 when COVID hit there were a number of economists that were predicting house prices to fall in which …
While many Kiwi’s still think it’s out of reach to buy your own home, it is often cheaper than renting. Banks have tightened credit criteria significantly since the COVID-19 pandemic struck, but first home buyers still have a good chance of getting on to the property ladder particularly as buying a home under current low …
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