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Fighting rising house prices is akin to fighting gravity. Gravity will always return you back to earth. It’s just the velocity of that return that determines the resulting mess. Curbing property...

Making financial decisions when single and then being in a relationship where you make financial decisions together is a bit like signing up for a three legged walking race with your partner....

I don’t know about you but the older I get the faster life seems to go! Where once retirement was something that would happen when I was really really old, now, well, it’s not as far away as I would...

Ok admit it, none of us are keen on those friends or family that you invite around for nibbles and they double dip the yummy kiwi icon, reduced cream dip. Not cool! However there is one occasion...

In order to get out of debt I had to get into it in the first place and as it turned out getting INTO debt was one of the best things that happened to me, it gave me a six year master class in “how...

The real cost of owning a house, for most of us, is the cost of funding it. Let’s assume you buy a $500,000 house and borrow $420,000 as a mortgage. This $420,000 would cost $486000 in interest over...

School holidays, you either love 'em or hate 'em and more often than not it's a bit of both on any given day or hour. If you're looking for things to do with the kids these holidays here is a brain...

As a parent the things that you worry about are infinite, literally. Now that my daughter is starting to get a little older one of the many things I have started ‘thinking’ about (aka worrying about)...

If you are looking to purchase a house and sit down with your lender/broker the conversation tends often comprises the following:

Buying second hand is very on trend at the moment, which is great! It is great for our wallets and also great for our planet to reuse rather than buy new. Whether it be finding a 'vintage' piece of...