Search results

  1. S

    Moving to gold coast from adelaide

    6k?? anyway to add to the list on top, close to the gc hospital there is another suburb called crestwood (close to molendinar, but it's the upmarket version of it) and parkwood. some of the houses in parkwood are selling cheap currently, also there are heaps of options in labrador (centrally...
  2. S

    3 & 5 year fixed rates thread

    no, i dont really see their atm around outside their branch (i am in brisbane though) and their base is down in gold coast and nsw but having visited gold coast often i dont see their atm around either https://www.greater.com.au/About-Us/BranchATM-Locator/BranchATM-Locator.aspx...
  3. S

    3 & 5 year fixed rates thread

    i am with greater and they seem to be pretty good apart from limited branches they have. the internet banking is definitely better than ing
  4. S

    refinancing out of vendor finance

    im just paying off all my loans at the moment, had around 40k loan in mid 2010 after renovation etc to my other place which stands around 9k at the moment. so it will take me around 2-3 years to get 20% on 300++k properties at the rate i am going. so i have no deposit, 9k plus in the loan...
  5. S

    refinancing out of vendor finance

    i am also trying to save up money, assuming the price doesnt go up but i am saving up 20% in that period of time. the way i am taking this is basically getting into no deposit home loan while saving up the 20% and buying at current low value in properties had i waited for another 3 years to...
  6. S

    refinancing out of vendor finance

    if i do have 20% deposit after 2-3 years, will that be fine with all the lenders? or VF is just something that they frown upon? i dont really understand, if they value the property at xxx, and i can afford the loan, the loan balance on VF is less than 80% of current value (assuming it increase...
  7. S

    refinancing out of vendor finance

    hi im looking at a vendor finance property at the moment and found one that i like. however i work out the interest rate from the weekly instalment to be 7.5% pa i dont mind paying that extra for 3-4 years (saving for 20% deposit) but im just wondering how would i go and refinance the loan...
  8. S

    South East Asia

    my dad's hdb has gone from 180k to 360k in 3 years time :| i wish i had listened to him and got one when he was buying it, but i dont want to live there
  9. S

    Transfer money from overseas

    yeah good idea, didnt think of asking the bank first actually, although i was hoping there are other ways of doing it without using bank (better rate and fees) surely western union isnt that bad :D
  10. S

    Transfer money from overseas

    Hi all I am about to transfer around 100k from overseas into my account here, is there any gotchas i should be aware of? like tax or fees? what do you guys normally do when transferring large amount of money? do you use bank or any other service to do it? cheers
  11. S

    Is the tide turning on negative press?

    that would be too late wouldnt it?
  12. S

    3 & 5 year fixed rates thread

    5.57% that's really good. the setup fee is the killer though
  13. S

    withdrawing offer before the contract is signed but have paid deposit

    no i didnt, there wasnt any deadline actually but the agent wont be able to physically get it signed till next week anyway and we both know this from the start actually
  14. S

    withdrawing offer before the contract is signed but have paid deposit

    im in queensland, the thing is the contract has not been signed by the vendor and returned to me yet, it will only happen next week. so i am withdrawing my offer today
  15. S

    withdrawing offer before the contract is signed but have paid deposit

    hi guys i am just wondering if i can withdraw my written offer before the seller sign the contract and still getting back my deposit? regards
  16. S

    3 & 5 year fixed rates thread

    yeah cant see this on their website either? care to share?
  17. S

    88 million apartment? can we see this in australia?

    After weeks of speculation, it's finally been revealed that Ekaterina Rybolovleva, the 22-year-old daughter of Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev, is the purchaser of ex-Citigroup CEO Sandy Weill's penthouse at 15 Central Park West in New York. Forbes reports that Rybolovleva paid the full...
  18. S

    Bunch of jealous whiners

    i think the correct term is white ghost :)
  19. S

    USA, Ireland, UK, Spain and Japan Property Bubbles versus Australia

    i think that's pretty spot on. We had massive increase leading up to 2003 had we had massive unemployment the buble would have burst instead of plateauing for a decade Actually from the graph itself it sort of show it started to fall during gfc and I think ir cuts and government intervention...
  20. S

    USA, Ireland, UK, Spain and Japan Property Bubbles versus Australia

    it looks like bubble appearing in 2003, we should have had the correction during the gfc and i think we were lucky to avoid that big crash. however those other countries are not that lucky unfortunately. i am not sure how long we can keep this up though
Back
Top