Home Loan and Finance Guides

Clear, practical finance advice to help you make confident decisions — without the bank-speak.

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Whether you are buying your first home, refinancing, running a business or working for yourself, our guides explain your options in plain English. The right loan depends on your goals, income, property plans and the lender policies that apply to your situation.

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  • All
  • Applying for a loan
  • Finance News
  • First home buyer
  • First Home Buyer news
  • Government Schemes news
  • Guides
  • Home ownership news
  • Interest rates
  • Interest rates news
  • Investing news
  • Learning centre category
  • News and updates category
  • Property Market news
  • Purchasing property
  • RBA Cash Rate news
  • Refinancing
  • Refinancing news
  • Renovating
  • Understanding home loans
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Property Market news

Borrowing increases as property market heats up

There's been a big rise in home loans activity over the course of the year, with investors leading the way. Between February and September, the ...
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Understanding home loans

Redraw vs offset accounts: which is better?

When it comes to home loans, two popular options for managing your finances are redraw facilities and offset accounts. These features can help you save ...
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Understanding home loans

Maximising your home loan with offset accounts

Do you ever feel like your home loan is a never-ending journey? At The Happy Finance Company, we believe in making the path to homeownership ...
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Finance News

Deadline fast approaching for people who do their own taxes

The Australian Taxation office (ATO) has reminded taxpayers to lodge their taxes by the October 31 deadline or engage with a registered tax agent to ...
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First Home Buyer news

How the Federal Government is helping first home buyers

A new report, from Housing Australia, has revealed that about one in three of all first home buyers in the 2022-23 financial year used the ...
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Interest rates news

How interest rates have evolved over the past 18 months

The latest Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) data has shown the impact the RBA's cash rate rises have had on the mortgage market. The key ...
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Refinancing news

Australians refinance more than $20 billion of loans

With lots of people coming off fixed rates right now, it’s no surprise that an enormous amount of refinancing is occurring, as borrowers look to ...
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Understanding home loans

Demystifying Loan to Value Ratio (LVR)

At The Happy Finance Company, we believe that understanding the financial world should be as bright and sunny as our name suggests. Today, we're shedding ...
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RBA Cash Rate news

RBA leaves cash rate at 4.10%

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has left the cash rate at 4.10% for the fourth consecutive month, as many commentators had expected. While the ...

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