Cairns and District Mortgage Brokers – Queensland
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Cairns, situated 1,700 kilometres north of Brisbane is a popular tourist destination, especially for foreign tourists who seek out a tropical climate. The Great Barrier Reef which is in close proximity can be accessed by boat in less than an hour and it is only 130 kilometres away from the famous Daintree rainforest national park at Cape Tribulation. Cairns is a major port for exporting sugar cane, gold and other minerals as well as agricultural products grown on the Atherton Tableland. The population of Cairns is estimated to be in excess of 158,000 local residents but a large number of tourists are always in the area preparing for excursions further out to Cooktown and beyond up the Cape Yorke Peninsular as well as to the Atherton Tableland.
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Several small towns and communities are located along the Bruce Highway leading to Cairns the most distant being Mirriwinni 60 kilometres to its south, the largest of these townships is Babinda located 60 kilometres out. The town of Kuranda is founded upstream on the Barron River, west of the Macalister Range, which is part of the Great Dividing Range that stretches as far south as Victoria. The northern part of Cairns itself is located on Trinity Bay and the city centre is located on Trinity Inlet. Some of the city suburbs are built on natural flood plains. Two rivers, the Mulgrave and Barron flow within the city boundaries but not through the city itself although the city centre is actually established on what was a former mud flat.
There is always good opportunity to invest in property in Cairns because of the ever expanding tourist growth in the last major city on the eastern seaboard of the Australian mainland. Mortgage brokers are perfectly positioned to help you obtain a home loan so that you too can be part of this expansion as it occurs.
Mortgage brokers have a role to play is suggesting what may be the best financial option for you to take, when arranging your mortgage, in order to buy a property in the tropics. They are also aware of any ’specials’ being offered by lenders from time to time that you may otherwise miss out on if you decide to ‘go it alone’. The odds are that you, like most borrowers, are working full time and simply don’t have the resources at your disposal to check out the myriad of home loan products that are available in today’s market. Mortgage brokers offer home buyers a valuable service in this regard.
Over the last decade or so, with the growing importance of computers into the workings of business, software packages have become available that enable mortgage brokers to access a wide range of lenders along with the different products, benefits, features and options they have on offer. This software is very sophisticated and facilitates the mortgage broker’s ability to examine and select the most appropriate home loan available to match your particular needs. For example:
- When initially interviewed by your mortgage broker you might have indicated that you have a reasonable amount of savings that you do not want to put toward your property investment plan. You may wish to keep this money in an offset savings account where you can always access it if required.
- Mortgage brokers can quickly identify lenders who offer 100 percent offset facilities which will effectively lower the interest repayment component of your investment or home loan, making the interest earned from your savings tax free. The software used by mortgage brokers will also inform them of any lending restrictions in this particular area. This type of approach in seeking out the most appropriate home loan can save an individual borrower much time as well as money.
Mortgage brokers will not only ensure that your particular needs will be properly met by the choice of home loan product you finally settle on taking up, they will also be aware of which of the similar loans on offer are the cheapest. For example:
- Two or more home loans might be identical in what they offer, they have all the right features and have enough flexibility to enable you to initiate any changes in future years should your circumstances change. There is one big difference however – only one of these mortgages has no upfront costs. There was no application fee to pay, no valuation fee, and no lenders legal fees. This loan was effectively more than $1,230 cheaper than the others.
Mortgage brokers are able to do all this for you at no cost to yourself simply because they have arrangements with all the lenders on their panel, both bank and non-bank lenders, whereby they are paid a commission for placing your home loan with the successful lender, the one who is chosen to write your business. The rates of commission paid by the various lenders are not significantly different from each other. The lenders are willing to pay the commissions because they are saving costs by not having to employ salespeople. They also agree that the cost of the mortgage that the mortgage brokers negotiate on behalf of any borrower will be the same if the borrower had have gone directly to the lender without using the services of a mortgage broker.
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