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What happens with your mortgage when you move house?
There are a few different ways your mortgage can work with in your move, as JB explains....
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Ditching the corporate career
It’s the new year, a time for setting goals, re-evaluating and reassessing, so here’s my t...
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The making of Alan
Creating the first AI bot for first home buyers wasn't easy. There were some serious bloop...
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Why you should use a (good) mortgage broker
Buying a home is a tricky business. There are so many considerations to take into account....
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Navigating mortgages when you're self-employed
We have a lot of experience with customers who are self-employed and want to borrow for bu...
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The renovation nightmare you can’t see
Asbestos is not a nice character, but is presently lurking invisibly in many New Zealand h...
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Borrowing without the bank
Consumers typically don’t pay off their credit cards each month. With a $15,000 balance an...
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Everything there is to know about investing with Squirrel Money
If you’re familiar with the Squirrel brand, then you’ll know about the other side to our b...
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Our Takapuna team is on the move
As of the end of this month, our Takapuna team will be moving to the city. Don’t worry, yo...
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Inflation is dead
Technology is starting to progress faster than our ability to grasp its impact on our worl...
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Squirrel welcomes more bank options and 100% build finance
Squirrel has access to more lenders than any other broker and the only 100% build finance ...
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Driving Change: How the move toward driverless cars will affect the property market
Driverless cars were once the stuff of science fiction, but they’re now not only very real...
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Financial anxiety in 2017
We’ve recently run a small Facebook survey on what’s causing kiwis financial anxiety in 20...
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Making sense of the mortgage landscape
There’s no doubt about it – the mortgage landscape has changed. Credit markets are tighten...
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Take control of your retirement age
There are two significant decisions that you can make right now which will change the qual...
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The innovation age
As we’ve noted for some time there are some big forces in play that are increasingly chang...
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The cost of car ownership
When I lived in London I never owned a car. And when I worked in Sydney and Melbourne I si...
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The Geo-political zoo of 2017
The global economy is still in a muddle. So it’s difficult to get a clear gauge on what wi...
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January 2017 overview: Themes worth thinking about
It’s that time of the year. Media commentators are lining up to provide a “guess” (aka for...
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Mortgage rate forecast for 2017
Banks are blaming higher mortgage rates on higher funding costs even with the OCR at histo...
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Keeping up with Auckland: Will prices continue to soften?
In the ever changing Auckland housing market, the latest evidence is showing that the mark...
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