There are many great perks of running your own business. It allows you to be more free and satisfy no one’s vision but your own. Work, in this way, can be a path both to self discovery and a way of making sense of things that are bigger than ourselves. But this path isn’t for …
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Cast your minds back to last year when the ASIC issued guidelines to shorten the time financial institutions have to resolve most internal complaints from 45 to 30 calendar days. This change will come into effect as early as next month! How did they come to this decision? According to ASIC independent research into the …
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Continuing lockdowns bring a lot of uncertainties but you would be right for thinking the real estate markets are still in good shape. Over the month of August, property values increased in all our capital cities. Homeownership is still the DREAM Occasionally you’ll hear economists say that it’s actually better to rent over the long …
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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 …
As the pandemic pushed even more customers towards digital options, financial service firms and any other client-facing industries have streamlined a lot of their processes to remain viable and relevant. As a result, they are now able to tap into different customers and borrower markets that were previously unreachable. Making this quick shift has allowed …
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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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