Roubini: from Cassandra to superstar

Dr Doom is feted now but his early predictions made him deeply unpopular.

Quick Mortgage Quotes Online

Mortgage quotes can be quickly given through online services, but these will most often be estimations only.

Mortgage Choice Sends The Count Packing, For Now

The cat-and-mouse game is not over by a long shot.

Mortgage quotes that include debt consolidation

Mortgage quotes are somewhat different when considering them for debt consolidation.

Presenting a better prospect

If you are looking for the best mortgage quotes with the lowest interest rate, there is a very easy way to present the best image to a potential lender.

Mortgage quotes made easy

Are you after the best mortgage quotes in one easy location? Then we can help.

Fixed rate mortgages on the rise

First home buyers have been taking out fixed-rate home loans as their preferred home loan as the onset of another official interest rates hike is expected February.

Do you get a Fixed or Variable Home Loan in uncertain times

Houses are continually being bought no matter what the economic times are doing to the interest rate of the day. But how do we know what is the best way to go about getting a home loan, should we have one with a fixed rate so we know what we are paying for the next five years or should we get a variable rate which can change throughout the life of our loan?

Home's Where The Mortgage Broker Is

If you want to work from home, do your homework, writes Janine Perrett.

Loan Broker Faces Home Truths

Worried about the mortgage? Just ask the Missus, writes Janine Perrett.

Insuring Against Ill Effects Of Income Loss

REBECCA is a single, self-employed graphic designer who works from home. Aged in her mid-30s, she has monthly commitments of a mortgage and car payments and the usual living expenses.

Arranged Marriages

Mortgage brokers need reform but it requires political will, reports Tim Dick.

Over The Moon About Sunline <p>

On your knees and pay homage all you punting desperates - Sunline is back in Australia to save your sorry hides. You won't pay off the mortgage if you back her in today's $380,000 Angus Armanasco Stakes (1600m) at Caulfield, but little fishes, sweet was never a truer saying. This superb Kiwi f

Wallis's Winners And Losers

Despite what the Treasurer promises, consumers won't be outright winners in the latest banking shake-up, writes PAUL CLEARY . JUST over a year ago, the major banks had a stranglehold on the home mortgage market and profit margins were among the highest in the world. Then, suddenly, the banking

Annuity Quotes Will Vary

QUESTION: I always read your articles in Money and note a recent letter to a 73-year-old widower to whom you recommended an annuity. My situation is similar, but my adviser quoted different figures. ANSWER: Annuity quotes vary between companies and change every week in line with long-term intere

Markets Will Punish A Soft Budget

JOHN Howard's line that the Keating Government has given the country just five minutes of economic sunshine before the clouds roll back has hit a hyper-sensitive electoral nerve. Fear of further interest rate rises in Canberra's mortgage belt is seen as a major if not the major contributing

Mortgage Belt Puts Govt In A Dilemma

JOHN HOWARD'S line that the Keating Government has given the country just five minutes of economic sunshine before the clouds roll back has hit a hypersensitive electoral nerve. Fear of further interest rate rises in Canberra's mortgage belt is seen as being a major - if not the major - contribut

Turbulent Year Sees Black Come, Bond Go

Conrad Black came, saw and conquered. Alan Bond just went. But they and many others left us a few oratorical gems to remember them by. GIDEON HAIGH reviews the business world's most quotable quotes of 1991. One mo' time ``YOU'RE either going to have to believe me or call me a liar. I am telling

Shop Around For The Best Interest

AN irritating aspect of the big lift in home loan rates in the last six months or so is the way in which it has not been accompanied by an across-the-board rise in the rates paid on deposits. Most of the major institutions have increased mortgage rates by at least 1.5 percentage points but

Delays Lift Home Costs

LAST week's Money Today discussed the hidden costs of home loans, such as non-refundable application fees and annual loan maintenance charges. But mortgage costs can be even higher if the purchase is held up. Just what extra costs are incurred depend on the length of the delay and on the par