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Mortgages. For most of us they will be the single biggest financial commitment we will ever make in our lives.

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...

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...

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....

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...

In today’s increasingly online world, credit cards are becoming less of a luxury and more of a necessity for many people, whether it be doing your christmas shopping online, buying a book from amazon...

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...

Hitler once said “The greater the lie, the more people will believe it.” I’m not a fan of the fallen fuhrer. He ruined a perfectly good style of moustache (the Toothbrush moustache) for all who...