Loan Market’s Bruce Patten has come in runner up in the 2009 New Zealand Mortgage Brokers Association Broker of the Year award which was presented last Friday. In addition to being named the national runner up, Bruce, a regular finalist in the New Zealand mortgage broking industry’s prestigious yearly awards, was named Broker of the… Read more »
The Loan Market continues their run of outstanding months in placing mortgages for our purchasers. They completed just on 191 loans and our top broker for the month of July was Bruce Patten. Scott Charlesworth who continues to have a great year, also had an outstanding month. The leader of our Central North Island business… Read more »
The Reserve Bank Governor, Alan Bollard, lsat week kept the OCR rate unchanged at 2.5%. The Reserve Bank statement made it clear that the OCR level will remain at 2.5% or lower until the latter part of 2010. There was also an indication that if the New Zealand dollar and wholesale interest rates remained at high… Read more »
The number of people who think the time is right to buy a house continues to increase, even as expectations that prices will keep falling start to ease. The ASB housing confidence survey for the three months to April, published today, found 59 percent of respondents felt now was a good time to buy, up… Read more »
Tony Sheirlink of Ray White Browns Bay recently asked Stuart Matheson from the Loan Market North Shore to attend three open homes for properties he believed would have a lot of interest and the possibility of multiple offers. He was right! The first property they received together, 5 offers on the Sunday night. Tony wanted them… Read more »
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