by Craig Coupland | Nov 23, 2016 | Financial Planning, First Home Buyers, mortgage refinancing, Mortgages / Home Loans, Pitfalls, Property Investing, Tauranga
Summer is upon us!! Windy, rainy and sunny all in the same day. Then it rains for a week and the new builds are all out of schedule for an extra month! Nail biting stuff!It’s fair to say that the weather is busy and so is the home loan/mortgage market at this...
by Craig Coupland | Nov 16, 2016 | First Home Buyers, Mortgages / Home Loans, Tauranga
Building a house…?What are the different types of construction loans out there?As with all forms of lending for housing, getting a loan to fund a build can be a complicated and tricky beast. There are different options when building and meeting requirements. We’ll...
by Craig Coupland | Nov 10, 2016 | First Home Buyers, KiwiSaver, Mortgages / Home Loans, Tauranga
Everyone loves a feel-good story and we get to experience many with people getting into their first home! We will NEVER get tired of our clients’ excitement, gratitude and happiness!While we have the ‘yay we got my first home at auction’ stories, the ‘I didn’t think...
by Craig Coupland | Feb 24, 2016 | Financial Planning, investment advice, Mortgages / Home Loans, Property Investing, Tauranga
Let’s start with the end of WW2…So the year is 1945 and a lot of soldiers came home from the war – and what did they do?! They got BUSY making families! So we had a lot of people born after the war, and these were big families….no TV!! This is the...
by Craig Coupland | Feb 20, 2016 | Financial Planning, investment advice, Mortgages / Home Loans, Property Investing, retirement planning, Tauranga
This topic is quite the biggie!With lots of commentary in the media around the price of houses and the number of sales increasing, I felt it worthwhile putting some notes together on property investment generally.I intend to provide a brief history of the property...
by Craig Coupland | Feb 14, 2016 | First Home Buyers, Mortgages / Home Loans, Tauranga
Did you even know about about a price cap?If you are thinking about purchasing your first home in Tauranga and better yet, you QUALIFY for help with your mortgage with the Home Start Grant – make sure you are buying within the Tauranga District Boundary to...