Category Archives: News Alerts

The RBA’s interest rate statement for September 2015

Posted in: Finance, Home Loans, News Alerts, RBA Rate Decisions | September 1, 2015 at 2:00 pm , by Urbantech

At its meeting today, the RBA Board decided to leave the cash rate unchanged at 2.0 per cent. Statement by RBA’s Glenn Stevens: The global economy is expanding at a moderate pace, with some further softening in conditions in China and east Asia of late, but stronger US growth. Key...

How the APRA changes impact properrty investors

Posted in: Finance, Home Loans, News Alerts, Property Investment | August 26, 2015 at 2:13 pm , by Urbantech

What do the APRA announcements mean for your property portfolio? In December 2014, APRA, the prudential regulator of the Australian financial services industry, announced an increase in the level of supervisory focus on residential mortgage lending.1 This announcement was directed at Authorised Deposit-taking Institutions (ADIs) – corporations authorised under the Banking Act 1959 including banks, building societies and...

Real Investar – Property Investment Coaching

Posted in: Education Services, News Alerts, Property Investment, Urbantech Updates | August 21, 2015 at 3:13 pm , by Urbantech

Announcing a new way to build wealth through property investing… So what did you think of our Smarter Finance & Wealth Creation Guide? You know the latest version of our property investing eBook we recently launched… [If you missed the email or haven’t downloaded your free copy yet you can...

The RBA’s interest rate statement for August 2015

Posted in: Finance, Home Loans, News Alerts, RBA Rate Decisions | August 4, 2015 at 2:00 pm , by Urbantech

At its meeting today, the RBA Board decided to leave the cash rate unchanged at 2.0 per cent. Statement by RBA’s Glenn Stevens: The global economy is expanding at a moderate pace, but some key commodity prices are much lower than a year ago. Much of this trend appears to...

APRA has changed lending! – What you need to know…

Posted in: Finance, Home Loans, Market Updates, News Alerts | July 29, 2015 at 11:23 am , by Urbantech

The most significant changes to lending in the last 20 years! Updated: The lending landscape has changed dramatically over the past few months thanks to the country’s banking regulator APRA. In December last year, the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority [APRA] announced its specific areas of concern, alerting the industry to its increased...

The RBA’s interest rate statement for July 2015

Posted in: Finance, Home Loans, News Alerts, RBA Rate Decisions | July 7, 2015 at 2:07 pm , by Urbantech

At its meeting today, the RBA Board decided to leave the cash rate unchanged at 2.0 per cent. Statement by RBA’s Glenn Stevens: The global economy is expanding at a moderate pace, but some key commodity prices are much lower than a year ago. This trend appears largely to reflect...

Top 20 tips for minimising your tax bill this year…

Posted in: Finance, News Alerts | June 25, 2015 at 1:54 pm , by Urbantech

Note: This article first appeared on smartcompany.com.au here – http://www.smartcompany.com.au/finance/tax/47378-top-20-end-of-financial-year-tax-tips-for-smes.html?. SmartCompany is a free news, information and resource site for Australia’s entrepreneurs, small and medium business owners and business managers to help keep them ahead of their competition. The end of the financial year is upon us and it’s time to make sure...

EOFY Alert – $20,000 asset write-off explained and more…

Posted in: Finance, News Alerts | June 16, 2015 at 2:17 pm , by Urbantech

Getting the most out of the Budget The small business community can face the new financial year with increased certainty, with legislation for the government’s small business tax cut and $20,000 asset write-off scheme passing through the Senate earlier this week. As a result all small businesses can immediately deduct...

The RBA’s interest rate statement for June 2015

Posted in: Finance, Home Loans, News Alerts, RBA Rate Decisions | June 2, 2015 at 2:01 pm , by Urbantech

At its meeting today, the RBA Board decided to leave the cash rate unchanged at 2.0 per cent. Statement by RBA’s Glenn Stevens: The global economy is expanding at a moderate pace, but some key commodity prices are much lower than a year ago. This trend appears largely to reflect...

Our best home loan variable rate just got even cheaper…

Posted in: Finance, Home Loans, News Alerts | May 12, 2015 at 11:19 am , by Urbantech

The best home & investment loan rates ever! We’ve just completed a review of all the lenders and loans we have access to on our panel [over 30 lenders and 1000’s of loan products!] and can report our variable rates are now as low as 4.13%. For more details and...

The RBA’s interest rate statement for May 2015

Posted in: Finance, Home Loans, News Alerts, RBA Rate Decisions | May 5, 2015 at 2:02 pm , by Urbantech

At its meeting today, the RBA Board decided to lower the cash rate by 25 basis points to 2.0 per cent. Statement by RBA’s Glenn Stevens: The global economy is expanding at a moderate pace, but commodity prices have declined over the past year, in some cases sharply. These trends...

Are these the best fixed rates ever…

Posted in: Finance, Home Loans, News Alerts | April 14, 2015 at 10:21 am , by Urbantech

Fixed Rates from as low as 3.99%! … 1 year, 2 year and 3 year fixed rate home loans have just been slashed to 3.99%. Want to fix for longer? – 4 year and 5 year fixed rates have also reduced to just 4.33%. Call us on 8451 1500 for...

The RBA’s interest rate statement for April 2015

Posted in: Finance, News Alerts, RBA Rate Decisions | April 7, 2015 at 2:02 pm , by Urbantech

At its meeting today, the RBA Board decided to leave the cash rate unchanged at 2.25 per cent. Statement by RBA’s Glenn Stevens: Moderate growth in the global economy is expected in 2015, with the US economy continuing to strengthen, even as China’s growth slows a little from last year’s...

Fixed Rates from as low as 4.14%

Posted in: Finance, Home Loans, News Alerts | February 12, 2015 at 1:27 pm , by Urbantech

3 year Fixed Rates are now 4.14% !! In fact, 1 year, 2 year and 3 year fixed rate home loans have all just been slashed to 4.14%. Want to fix for longer? 4 year and 5 year fixed rates have also reduced to just 4.34%. Call us on 8451...

Get a Free Income Protection Quote

Posted in: Insurance, News Alerts | May 27, 2014 at 11:01 am , by Urbantech

Income Protection now available… Thanks to our partners at ALI Group we can now offer you the opportunity to get hassle free Income Protection Insurance. If you don’t already have income protection we suggest you seriously consider whether it could be right for you. If you’ve currently got an income protection policy then why...

Credit Reporting has changed – what you need to know!

Posted in: News Alerts, Resources | March 27, 2014 at 2:32 pm , by Urbantech

The biggest change in credit reporting history has just hit. If you haven’t paid much attention to your credit history, you might want to, as Australia embarks on a massive overhaul of its credit reporting system. On March 12th ‘comprehensive credit reporting’ [CCR] changes came into effect as a result...

Wishing you a safe and happy Easter break!

Posted in: News Alerts | April 5, 2012 at 3:48 pm , by Urbantech

Happy Easter! Matt and I would like to wish you and your family a wonderful and safe long weekend. Hope you get to enjoy some chocolate eggs and hot cross buns! PS. You might have noticed I’ve been a bit quiet of late – no monthly newsletters, no event...

Footy Tips 2012 – starts soon!

Posted in: Events, News Alerts | March 14, 2012 at 10:32 am , by Urbantech

Do you have what it takes?… Footy season is back! So it’s time to sign up for our Footy Tipping Comp and see whether you have what it takes to be our next footy tipping legend! Our competition is managed through footytips.com.au and each week you can check your results,...

The RBA’s interest statement for March…

Posted in: Finance, News Alerts, RBA Rate Decisions | March 6, 2012 at 2:15 pm , by Urbantech

At its meeting today, the Board decided to leave the cash rate unchanged at 4.25 per cent. Statement by Glenn Stevens: Recent information is consistent with the expectation that the world economy will grow at a below-trend pace this year, but does not suggest that a deep downturn is occurring....

Using your super fund to buy property…

Posted in: Finance, News Alerts, Property Investment | February 24, 2012 at 10:57 am , by Urbantech

78% of Australians will not have enough money to retire on! Are you headed for a superannuation disaster? Millions of Australian’s have watched in shock as their retirement dreams have gone up in smoke. Let’s face it superannuation returns in general have been dismal over the last few years. When...