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Borrowing

Assessment rates, living expense benchmarks and how existing commitments are treated can shift your capacity by hundreds of thousands.

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Borrowing

Assessment rates, living expense benchmarks and how existing commitments are treated can shift your capacity by hundreds of thousands.

Rove Financial · 6 min readRead

Structure

They look similar on a statement and behave very differently in practice — particularly if the property ever becomes an investment.

Rove Financial · 5 min readRead

First home

Deposit, costs, buffers and schemes. What you actually need in the account before you start making offers.

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Refinancing

A lower rate isn't always a better outcome. Term resets, costs and structure changes can quietly erase the saving.

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Self employed

Add-backs, retained profits and trust distributions — what a credit assessor is looking for in your tax returns.

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Investing

Tying securities together makes one approval easier and every future decision harder. Here's the trade-off in detail.

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