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There are calls from some brokers and lenders for banks to be more transparent in regards to which other banks, aggregators and brokerages they own.

The Housing Institute of Australia (HIA) has said it might be the housing sector that stimulates the country’s next round of growth.

Some banks are offering recently graduated medical professionals and doctors home loans with a loan to value ratio (LVR) of 90 per cent.

Autumn’s star performer in the Melbourne property market has been without a doubt the outer eastern suburbs.

The other day, while doing some analysis on the loans lodged over the past year and looking at the timeframes and where delays have occurred, I was struck by the number of stages that a loan application needs to go through before settlement and the number of people that the file depends on to go smoothly.