Tagged: home loans

April 22, 2023 @ 2:54 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Commonwealth Bank is expanding its range of green financing to support home loan and personal loan customers “to enhance the energy efficiency of their homes, and purchase electric and hybrid vehicles.” The Green Loan is described as being “a low, 10-year secured fixed rate and… Read More

August 12, 2021 @ 10:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Australia’s first “smartbank,” 86 400, reveals that it has introduced a new 85% Loan to Value Ratio (LVR) tier for Owner Occupied, Principal and Interest home loans, and has now “removed the need to pay Lenders Mortgage Insurance (LMI) with a 15% deposit/equity, knocking thousands… Read More

November 2, 2020 @ 11:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Mortgage Choice, an established brokerage firm, will be offering its brokers access to Australian digital bank 86 400. The broker has reportedly added the challenger bank to its residential lending panel. Emma Dupont-Brown, GM at Mortgage Choice, stated that adding the digital bank would mean… Read More

July 13, 2020 @ 9:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Australian neobank UBank, a leading digital challenger, has reportedly reduced its home loan rate to its historical low. UBank’s management noted that they’ve made a 0.10% to 0.15% per annum out-of-cycle reduction to the bank’s variable home loan rates. New property owner and occupier home… Read More

March 29, 2019 @ 3:55 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Online lending platform SoFi announced on Thursday it has refreshed its mortgage offering as SoFi Home Loans. The lender reported that the offering is complete with a re-engineered process that helps people buy or refinance a home with an online application, no hidden fees, or… Read More

October 7, 2016 @ 3:45 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Earlier this week, peer-to-peer lending platform Zopa announced it has teamed up with Airbnb as a way to help UK customers pay back their home loans. The lender revealed borrowers just need to sign up to become an Airbnb host through a link on their Zopa dashboard…. Read More