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NZ home loan affordability improves most in 18 months | 19 August 2010
New Zealand home loan affordability improved in July by its biggest amount in 18 months to its best levels since September last year...

NZ home loan affordability worsens slightly, but set to improve | 19 July 2010
New Zealand home loan affordability worsened slightly in June from May as the median house price nudged up faster than incomes...

Should I stay or should I go? | 6 December 2009
I have been with one bank all my life, but am concerned that it’s mortgage rates are consistently higher than other banks I could go to.

Finding a property manager | 21 June 2009
How do I find a good one, and how do I keep them honest while I am away? Can I claim some of the costs for property management and insurance while I am away?

Redundancy Shock | 17 May 2009
Do I need to tell the bank I am going to lose my job? Will they be angry if we later have to do something like take a mortgage holiday and they discover our change of circumstances?.

Fixed or floating | 26 April 2009
Do you think the five-year rates are still good value, or should I stick to shorter terms. They seem to have gone up very fast and I hope they could come back from here as quickly.

Queenstown Times | 2 February 2009
Roost mortgage broker Mark Pullar said he had been inundated with customers, many of them first-home buyers, who have been holding out for the past two or three months, waiting to buy as property prices and interest rates dropped.

The Southland Times | 30th January 2009
Cash Rate Cut Benefits New Home Owners. Mark Pullar of Roost Mortgages "Pulled out all sorts of miracles"