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2 months ago | 
finder.com.au | Richard Whitten |Kylie Purcell |Rebecca Pike
Finder is one of Australia's leading comparison websites. We are committed to our readers and stand by our editorial principles. We try to take an open and transparent approach and provide a broad-based comparison service. However, you should be aware that while we are an independently owned service, our comparison service does not include all providers or all products available in the market.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
finder.com.au | Rebecca Pike
Earn up to $4,000 when you take out a new home loan as a buyer or refinancers. There are a number of reasons you might consider a particular home loan product to be the right one for you. An attractive interest rate, a 100% offset account, no fees. For many people, the offer of a cashback is particularly enticing. Finder's research shows that 70% of Australians consider a cashback offer.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
finder.com.au | Rebecca Pike
Getting the right investment loan is crucial to your property strategy. Compare rates for property investment loans from across the market.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
finder.com.au | Rebecca Pike |Richard Whitten |Alison Banney |Tom Stelzer
The Australian dollar is having a rough start to the year and it could mean bad news for everyday Aussies. If you've been following the news over the last week or so, you'll have heard that the Australian dollar is doing… not so well. It dropped to a 5-year-low against the US dollar last week: $1AUD now buys around $0.62 USD. For those of you who don't eagerly follow along with the price of United States dollar, that's 7 US cents less than in September.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
finder.com.au | Rebecca Pike
The RBA has met for the final time this year and... nothing has changed. The RBA has officially quashed any optimism of a 2024 rate cut by announcing the cash rate will remain at 4.35%. Although many economists had speculated earlier in the year that we were very likely to have a rate cut by the end of 2024, sticky inflation and a stubborn reserve bank board means we're now (hopefully) looking at 2025 instead.
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Dec 8, 2024 | 
finder.com.au | Rebecca Pike
Finder is one of Australia's leading comparison websites. We are committed to our readers and stand by our editorial principles. We try to take an open and transparent approach and provide a broad-based comparison service. However, you should be aware that while we are an independently owned service, our comparison service does not include all providers or all products available in the market.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
finder.com.au | Rebecca Pike
Through CarBar novated leasing the employee would choose from its wide range of vehicles based on their budget and their employer would facilitate the car leasing repayments on behalf of the employee. The lease repayments can be made over a lease term of 1 to 5 years and come out of the employee's pre-tax salary. The benefit of this is that it lowers the amount of income tax paid.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
finder.com.au | Rebecca Pike
The legislation to help first home buyers is caught up in some parliamentary drama that could see a forced election. You might have seen in the news over recent weeks that the government is trying to pass a new bill which keeps being rejected. Despite not being passed a few weeks ago the government is trying again and reintroducing the bill next week. The government is obviously very keen to get this bill through so why is it struggling?
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
finder.com.au | Rebecca Pike
9+ Excellent These home loans offer low costs, coupled with a host of features, giving the best overall value. 7+ Great These home loans may have slightly higher interest rates or fewer features but overall, a competitive offering. 5+ Standard Usually the home loans would offer above average rates. They may still include some competitive features. 0+ Basic Higher costs and/or fewer features.
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Sep 24, 2024 | 
finder.com.au | Rebecca Pike
^ A visual representation of me following the cash rate news this month. Ignoring some pretty intense calls to cut the cash rate, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has announced it's holding it where it is at 4.35%. This was widely expected by all the economists that Finder surveys ahead of the meetings, despite a valiant protest from the Greens party.
