Emily Doran
Recent Posts
Landlords - How to select the right tenants for your property
- Emily Doran
- 4th of July 2016
Once your property is secured and ready to rent out the next step is to find tenants. Tenants, unfortunately they are not all created equal and having good tenants vs bad tenants can make or break a...
Read MoreLandlords - Things to do before renting your property out
- Emily Doran
- 21st of June 2016
So you've taken the plunge and purchased an investment property, good on you! Now you need to put this property to work earning it's keep. Before you do that though there are a few things you need to...
Read MoreDownsizing - the ultimate way to get debt free faster?
- Emily Doran
- 25th of May 2016
I've worked for New Zealand Home Loans for 8 years now and the aim has always been to 'help our clients get debt free faster'. I've been a client for 7 years now, since buying our first home and now,...
Read MoreOpinion: Auctions bite!
- Emily Doran
- 13th of May 2016
Auctions, you just can't get away from them these days. Take one look at TradeMe Property or Realestate.co.nz or any real estate agency website and you'll see that a lot of the listings are auctions....
Read MoreWhat to look for in an investment property
- Emily Doran
- 15th of April 2016
So you've decided to take the plunge and buy an investment property. You've done the work crunching the numbers and it looks like they stack up, so now comes the hard bit of scouring the internet,...
Read More5 reasons lenders decline mortgage applications
- Emily Doran
- 24th of March 2016
There is nothing worse than dreaming of your own home, putting time and effort into finding your dream home only to have the lender come back and decline your mortgage application. It can be...
Read MoreCommon mortgage mistakes....and how to avoid them
- Emily Doran
- 2nd of March 2016
Mortgages. For most of us they will be the single biggest financial commitment we will ever make in our lives.
Read More5 ways to keep your cards safe
- Emily Doran
- 24th of February 2016
In today's electronic world cash is almost a thing of the past. Increasingly we are paying for all our goods and services with credit card or eftpos, in fact, there was 127 million electronic...
Read MoreHow to beat rising property prices
- Emily Doran
- 3rd of February 2016
It seems that every day we see articles in the paper about house prices continuing to go up, about the halo affect from Auckland and the general unaffortablity of houses for first home buyers....
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