Climate change is a hot topic. Every business, community and individual is encouraged to do their bit for reducing our carbon footprint. For rural landholders, there is an opportunity to not only make a difference to Australian air quality, but reap some rewards at the same time. The concept sounds simple enough – a farmer More…
The miracle of insurance
We’ve all heard a woeful story about some fool who let their insurance payments lapse only to come home to a burst pipe and a house submerged by water. A real hard wood floor wouldn’t survive that, nor would an imported sofa and dining table. I know because that fool was me. I was only More…
Audio: Aussie’s John Symond with the Triple M Grill Team
Listen to Aussie’s John Symond chatting to the Triple M Grill Team about the upcoming interest rate rise on the morning of the 4th May 2010, before interest rates were put up 0.25%.
John Symond on the Ross Greenwood Money Show on April 4th
Listen to Ross Greenwood’s interview with John Symond on 2GB where they discuss the Interest Rate Rise on May 4th.
The RBA’s latest rate rise is a slap in the face
The Reserve Bank’s decision to raise rates for the sixth time in seven meetings was helping to put the dream of home ownership out of the reach of many Australians, Aussie’s founder and chief executive Mr John Symond said today. “The RBA’s decision to raise rates, again, is a slap in the face to every More…
Property prices are rising: will rates join them?
Property prices are increasing, especially on the East Coast, but the Government has changed the laws of foreign investors buying property due to property demand driving up housing prices.
Homeowners Rush To Refinance Their Mortgages
Aussie has seen a surge in the number of customers looking to refinance their existing mortgages and potentially get a better deal as the effects of five rate rises by the Reserve Bank begins to bite at family budgets. The number of homeowners visiting the website www.aussie.com.au to request an appointment with an Aussie broker More…
Help Find Yourself A Better Deal On Your Home Loan With Aussie’s 1-Minute Mortgage Explorer
Homeowners looking for a better deal on their mortgage following the Reserve Bank’s decision to lift interest rates for the fifth time in the last six meetings, should check out Aussie’s 1-Minute Mortgage Explorer. More than 150,000 Australians have already used the online web tool to help find a better home loan product. Aussie’s founder More…
$1, and I could be the next big international property tycoon
Rosalind Scutt & Megan Tidd, Ninemsn Money I’ve always wanted to be a property tycoon. Listening to friends and neighbours drop off-handed comments about their “international portfolio” always makes me think of sipping sangria in Spanish mansions on the Mediterranean coast, or testing out this season’s plonk in a vineyard fringed cottage in Bordeaux. But More…
The rate that stops a nation
Forget the Melbourne Cup. It may be the race that stops the nation, but nowadays it’s more the rate that can stop the nation. On the first Tuesday of every month (with the exception of January), the Reserve Bank of Australia determines whether interest rates will go up, down, or stay the same. As 2.30pm More…