Empower Blog Fixed Rates

6 Essential Lessons Everyone Should Know Before Their Fixed Loan Expires 

At Empower Wealth we are passionate about providing practical education that helps our community at every step of their financial journey. We want to ensure that no money is left on the table, and one of the biggest money pits we've found is the interest we pay on our mortgages. So in this video, Ben explains six lessons that every borrower sh...

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7 Things to Consider when Securing Your New Home/Investment Property Loan

Whether it’s your first time or tenth home or investment purchase, choosing a lender in a competitive market and getting a loan approved by a bank or lender is a laborious task. There are a lot of requirements to satisfy, applications to fill out and paperwork to get it order, so it can seem as if you will never get it all together and you are...

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RBA Rate Decision – February 2014

Hello Ben Kingsley here with the RBA rates announcement just released. Cash rate remained on hold at 2.5%. The RBA will also release the minutes of the meeting which will give us a further indication in terms of how they're looking and what sort of position they are taking in terms of rates. Right now though, I think the settings are about ri...

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Interest Rate Outlook for 2013 – Variable or Fix?

As a professional who makes a living out of helping people find the right lending option and loan structuring outcomes,  I know I will get asked what should ‘we’ meaning my clients,  be doing regarding our lending in 2013. Everybody got your Crystal Balls out? Good, because we are going to need them to pick what is going to happen with...

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Property Panel – Fixing your Interest Rates

Fixed interest rate and variable interest rate is another one a common debate points when choosing a mortgage loan. Sometimes, a fixed interest rate can be quite an advantage but on other times, it may be the cause of a difficult financial position. In this session of Melbourne Property TV (MPTV) Panel, Ben Kingsley and the panel discuss about the ...

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