8+ hour, 27+ min ago   (464+ words) Mortgage frauds keep stacking up across Australia's lending landscape. The news comes off the back of reports this past fall that mortgage fraud was accelerating in Australia's lending market, putting brokers and lenders on alert, and prompting many to take…...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (357+ words) This year's Australian Mortgage Awards (AMAs) are fast approaching, and if you haven't locked in your hotel room yet, consider this a friendly warning. The Australian mortgage industry’s biggest night of the year is now less than five weeks away,…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (487+ words) This year is becoming a year of leadership transitions in Australia's broking ecosystem. Boutique lender Bank of Sydney also rearranged its executive leadership team recently when it appointed Sam Tomaras as chief retail banking officer and Hisham Nakkash as chief…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (396+ words) A new national poll suggests Australians have lost faith in the country's ability to build enough homes to solve the housing crisis, with a clear majority instead backing cuts to migration, The Daily Telegraph reported. When forced to choose between…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (310+ words) Signs of further interest rate tightening abound. Hauser's comments come as the nation's central bank gears up for its September meeting on monetary policy. The RBA has already raised the official cash rate (OCR) three times so far in 2026, taking…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (391+ words) Australia's housing correction is deepening, and stretched borrowing capacity is doing much of the work in deciding where the pain lands hardest. Tim Lawless (pictured left), Cotality's head of research, Asia Pacific, writing on LinkedIn, said constrained servicing power is…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (295+ words) ASIC's latest financial advice update has flagged a compliance gap directly relevant to brokers: licensees are appointing advisers without completing mandatory reference checks. The regulator's ASIC Protocol, which has required full compliance since March 2025, obliges any AFS licensee taking on…...

5+ day, 13+ hour ago   (411+ words) All four of Australia's Big Four banks are now in alignment: They're all expecting interest rates to rise later this year. Westpac is the latest player to shift its outlook, abandoning its call from last month that interest rates would…...

5+ day, 23+ hour ago   (372+ words) Australian households are planning to significantly ramp up spending on home energy efficiency over the next five years, according to the newly released PropTrack Origin Australian Home Energy Report 2026. Seven in 10 Australians (69%) now intend to invest in upgrades such as…...

6+ day, 7+ hour ago   (414+ words) Suncorp Bank has begun writing to its 1.2 million customers, brokers, and aggregators about their move to ANZ, marking the first formal step in a transition that will see all Suncorp Bank accounts, products, and digital platforms shift onto ANZ's systems…...