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A financial plan I personally follow is keeping any commitments to fewer than 10 years. In current times we have very easy access to very large amounts of loans. While access to this money enables us...

Why are our houses and cars insured more than ourselves?

Interest rates are typically the first point of discussion on a mortgage, at face value they are easy to understand, a lower rate is better than a high rate and so easy to make a decision on. However...

2016 should be a great year for home owners with mortgages; interest rates will likely be as low as they have ever been and both economists and the reserve bank predict rates not moving until at...

We are ingrained to have an annual health check plus a visit to the dentist, but how about your financial health?

We had our first site visit with the new design team, and understandably quite a lot of time was talking about placement of the house. The house is unlikely to be larger than 150 sqm meters and it’s...

I am a ‘bang for buck’ kind of person. What can I get the most out of for the least effort? When I look at peoples finances I am always intrigued by where their efforts are often centered. People are...

In last month's newsletter we put it out there that if anyone had questions to ask our new CEO to flick them through and we'd answer them in a regular 'Ask the Boss' column.

With the current financial outlook of people paying mortgages until they are 70 it is important to have a plan in place to avoid this scenario. For most New Zealanders with mortgages they will be...

House build attempt 3. After having a couple of significant changes to circumstances and ending up with a prohibitively expensive design we have chosen to not go ahead withour previous designand...