Buying

New Zealand home buyers on a 444 visa can avoid LMI with the First Home Guarantee, saving thousands on their Australian property purchase.

As a first home buyer in Queensland, you can take advantage of stamp duty concessions that significantly reduce your costs when purchasing a property. If you’re buying a new or existing home valued at up to $800,000 or vacant land up to $500,000, you may qualify for reduced rates, saving you thousands.

First home buyers in NSW can benefit from stamp duty concessions. Homes valued up to $800,000 qualify for a full exemption, while properties between $800,000 and $1,000,000 receive a reduced rate. If buying vacant land, there’s a full exemption for land up to $350,000 and concessions for land valued between $350,000 and $450,000. Learn how these savings can reduce your property costs, and contact a UNO broker for expert guidance.

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Homebuilding is not just about constructing walls and a roof; it’s about creating a space that reflects your vision and meets your family’s needs. And while the process of building your dream home should be filled with excitement and anticipation, it’s often fraught with complexities and stress instead. From the initial design stages to the final handover, various factors can derail your project – including construction delays, design errors, and unexpected costs. To ensure a smooth homebuilding journey, you must proactively identify and address these potential roadblocks. This is where a reliable construction consultant can help.

Whilst low and no deposit loans are expensive and largely unavailable there are newer options that do away with expensive LMI and spending years saving for a deposit, but they aren't for everyone.

Find out how much your loan repayments would be using our calculator below. We’ve also compiled a definitive list of answers to your most pressing home loan questions.

Unlock $10,000 towards your first home in Tasmania with the First Home Owner Grant, available for eligible buyers building or purchasing a new, unoccupied home. Make sure you meet key residency and eligibility requirements to secure this valuable support for your homeownership journey.

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Help to Buy is a proposed federal shared equity scheme that lets first-time buyers co-own a home with the government with a 2% deposit.

Buying property is probably one of the biggest financial decisions you’ll make in your lifetime. As such, it requires a large amount of consideration. It doesn’t matter if you’re buying a six bedroom house on Wolseley Road – or a studio apartment in Tuggeranong, buying property is a very big deal.

Buying property is probably one of the biggest financial decisions you’ll make in your lifetime. As such, it requires a large amount of consideration. Whether your a first home buyer or looking to buy again we've created this in depth article that helps you to understand the major steps in the process and some key considerations

Are you a first home buyer and have no idea where to begin? Our guide will show you all the basic information you need to know and kickstart your home loan journey.

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So you're looking to buy a place and hoping your parents might tip in? There are absolutely options and ways to structure that, which can be beneficial to you and not too much of a risk for your parents, but it really is important to involve them in the process early on. Quite often we see a child or children who come to buy a place and they're looking to get help from their parents, and they're really not bringing the parents on the journey early so that the parents can step through the options, understand the pros and cons of either gifting you some money, giving you some money on a short term loan, or even using an existing property via what's called a "family pledge product". So if you're planning to buy a property and you're looking to enlist your parents' help, make sure you get them involved early, make sure you're bringing a UNO broker who can help you sort of step through the options and what the pros and cons of each are.

Alright, so you've just taken on a new job and you're also thinking about getting a home loan. Most people would think this is a terrible time to be actually starting the process. But you might be surprised that there are actually lenders who fully understand that people change jobs even more so in today's society and that this is a very valid time of your life to be considering getting a property purchase or refinancing your loan. So the things to think about here are typically what lenders will be battling with is if you're still on probation, that's usually a challenge, or if you haven't got your first pay slip, that will be a challenge, or alternatively, if you're operating in a new industry, that potentially is a challenge as well.