I know $50 a month doesn’t sound like much, especially if you have a huge home loan. But if you let your mortgage eat the rate cut, instead of putting it back in your pocket, that $50 will wipe as much as $41,000 off the average mortgage.

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What we’re seeing in world share markets is a slow motion car crash that neither side appears willing to avoid: much of Europe is being held together by a pilsner and a baguette, and the Americans are racing towards their next debt ceiling (and an election)…

Something just didn’t add up – my experience is that the banks leave the ‘gambling’ on rates to the average householder, who usually ends up losing out.

I get this questions a lot – and mostly from men. Making money motivates most blokes, whereas most women are driven by security (which explains why a former scammer once told me his golden rule for manipulating people was ‘don’t pitch the bitch’)…

When Wayne Swan banned exit fees this week, he was thinking about Tony Abbott. Tony is, after all, a battler from the suburbs of Sydney with a $700,000 mortgage and a job that – let’s be honest – is less than secure…

My husband and I bought our home nearly five years ago. We borrowed more than the house was worth. We’ve got ourselves into a really bad position, and we want to know what steps we can take to get ourselves out of this mess!

Some people dream of buying a home. Not me – I dream of owning my own home. I’ve got a mate who swears that the grass feels different under your (bare) feet when you make that last repayment…