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Credit bureaus in NZ are now looking at monthly account behaviour for all lending products as well as account behaviour for a number of utility bills. Basically, if you miss a payment, everyone will know about it. Here's everything you need to know.

This article is written for prospective homebuyers, but it is also an important reference point for leaky owners trying to sell. Plaster houses are harder to sell and will sell for 10%-15% below what an equivalent weatherboard house would sell for.

I’ve recently written a blog post on how to buy in a soft market. This one is the opposite, for those of you selling. Let's talk agents, strategy and tactics to get you the best outcome.

A mortgage isn't something you set and forget. It should be reviewed regularly with the ups, downs, plot twists of life and interest rate fluctuation. Especially if you want to pay it off as fast as possible and save money on interest. If you haven't had yours reviewed in a while, here are 5 simple things to consider.

Looking to finally upgrade the kitchen or add a touch of class to your bathroom? It might be easier to do than you realise, potentially without adding anything extra to your monthly financial commitments.

Is our ‘low interest rate world’ the beginning of the end of money as we know it?

Squirrel has access to more lenders than any other broker and the only 100% build finance product for builders in New Zealand.

I don’t like the word ‘career.’ It is so uninspiring. To me it’s not so much kick-starting a career, but how to become the person you want to be. I’ve done a heap of self-development over the years, travelled a lot, written lots of life stories, and here’s some of what I’ve learned.

We have just launched Squirrel Money which is a new peer-to-peer lending platform. It's early days and we know we have a hard journey ahead of us.

After almost a year of IT development and scurrying about Squirrel Money has been licensed by the FMA to be a peer-to-peer lender.

This week Squirrel hit $1 billion of home loans in the 6 years since we started.