Many people prefer to work independently and with flexible schedules when it comes to employment. One of the jobs that provide the mentioned qualities is being a mortgage broker. You decide where you put your effort, your start and finish times, plus breaks and you control how your work is done. You are the ruler …
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You probably don’t think much about computer chips on a normal day. They don’t brag or boast about how good they are. Instead these tiny pieces of tech work calmly inside millions of products, minding their own business and quietly transforming how we live and work. They are also known as semiconductors – the building …
Mortgage brokers, lend me your ears! Here’s what happened recently that made me think about the importance of responding to leads on time. It made me realise that every lead has a fixed “shelf life” and it’s so important to follow up on them promptly. True story. On Sunday, I was browsing the internet to …
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Apparently, home-owners have topped up their mortgages by nearly $93 billion in the last year, given the rising property values and increased equity. Most lenders have also replaced traditional products such as lines of credit with top-up loans or supplementary loans using property equity as security. Just a quick recap, equity is the difference between …
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Cashed up investors in Singapore are snapping up properties in Australia in an astronomical amount. Singapore is now the second-largest buyer of Australian real estate, right behind the United States. So what gives? I came across some interesting facts about Singapore: #1: A 56-year-old nation situated in Southeast Asia, off the Southern tip of the …
Loan officers or mortgage professionals, as they are sometimes referred to, often take advantage of mortgage lead generation to grow their business. In simple terms, lead generation is the act of gathering leads or interests of people looking for a mortgage. Once you have those leads, you’ll then be able to nurture them down the …
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The United Nations 6th assessment report released last week said The Earth is on track to become 1.5 degrees hotter in the next decade. As residents, we should be prepared for more fires, floods, droughts, storms and animal extinctions. On that note, climate change has some powerful impacts on the financial market as well. It’s …
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Since the pandemic hit and restrictions were put in place, people around the world have been sort of stuck at home with the same repetitive routines. We wake up, exercise, make ourselves a coffee, work at our kitchen tables while watching our children, go to sleep and do it all over again the next day. …
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Despite increasing lockdowns, jaw-dropping property sales are still being recorded in the Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra markets. Economists have pointed out that this demand is driven by an element of FOMO, a desire for sea-change or tree-change, record-low mortgage rates, home buyer incentives, economic and jobs recovery. Strong property sales in all markets Adelaide has …
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We’ve heard in many headlines that we just have to learn to live with the virus. The idea that covid will be wiped away completely from the face of the Earth and everything is going to wonderfully go back to normal seems unlikely. Given that total eradication has only been achieved with one virus before …
