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Mortgage processing company launched

In an effort to beef up efficiencies in the mortgage broking industry, Mortgagenet Director Kieran Trass has developed a separate processing company, MPL, to provide a link between brokers and mortgage lenders.

Thu, Mar 29th 2001 03:42PM

Happy days

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Hope for housing market

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Lower rates still likely

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Buyers for part of national chain

The REAL name will continue in real estate, even though the original network has gone into receivership.

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Rush on rates

There's been a rush to lower mortgage rates over the last couple of days, following the Reserve Bank's decision to cut the Official Cash Rate.

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OCR cut to 6.25 per cent

The Reserve Bank has surprised much of the market by cutting interest rates, saying that medium term inflation pressures now looked more likely to ease than to build.

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Still sizzle left in the summer

The success of ANZ's "Summer Breeze" home loan deal has prompted the bank to extend it three weeks until March 30.

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Liquid launch

AMP New Zealand has just poured out a new independent subsidiary liquid.co.nz, which has partnered with over 20 businesses to create what it says is the country's first broad-based financial services portal.

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Mixed outlook for interest rates

Prospects of a cut in the Official Cash Rate next week are receding, thanks to stronger NZ and US data as well as the weak Kiwi dollar.

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Big bikkies for beach baches

Many Kiwis are now seeing coastal land as a first-class investment, while "absolute beachfront" properties in particular are fetching some colossal prices.

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Cars, trains, planes and fibreoptic cables

Toll roads, fibre-optic cable networks and airports: those are just some of the chunky investments a new Macquarie Bank fund hopes to digest.

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Cars, trains, planes and fibreoptic cables

People: Catherine Savage

Ann Cunninghame mets a woman who shakes up the stereotype of the conservative fund manager.

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Mortgages from That Bank?

They're not exactly quaking in their boots at the prospect of mortgages from the People's Bank.

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Wizard expands

Wizard Financial Services has just opened its fourth New Zealand branch office, on Auckland's North Shore, and is close to finalising other branches in Auckland and Wellington.

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Wider profile sought for new property company

The future of the Waltus Property Trust is under review, now that Waltus Property Investments is up and running.

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Lenders get out the shears

Mortgage rates have been tumbling in recent days, with many lenders cutting their short-term rates late last week and early this.

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Spotlight on rentals

While the improving economy and higher income levels should boost rents in 2001, it's unlikely to be a year of major rent hikes.

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Investors still piqued

Concerns are being expressed about the rights of small investors, after a Court of Appeal decision on the roll-up of several property syndicates into one company.

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