How to Handle Difficult Clients as a Broker
Client furious about a decline? Prevent surprises, calm the call in five steps and stay inside your duties when dealing with difficult clients.
How to Diversify a Mortgage Brokerage
When home-loan volume slows, diversify into commercial, asset finance or referral income your appointment covers, and disclose any referral fee in writing.
What is Effi and How Does It Help Brokers?
Thinking about the Effi software for your brokerage? See what the online CRM handles, where its AI tools stop and how to trial it on a live file.
Email Marketing for Mortgage Brokers
Email marketing works for brokers only with recorded consent and a working unsubscribe. Use these campaign types, client templates and nurture sequences.
What is EMBR? Pay-Per-Lead Mortgage Campaigns
Before you buy leads from EMBR Group, agree the sources, consent wording and valid-lead rules, then run a capped pilot and judge it on settlements.
Australian Expat Home Loans: How to Qualify
Check residency, foreign income and property type first. Australian expat home loans come from fewer lenders, and they discount overseas income.
Facebook and Meta Ads for Mortgage Brokers
Meta approval does not make a credit ad lawful. Set up Facebook and Meta ads for your brokerage with the right category, a test budget and lead tracking.
Guarantor Home Loans: Using Your Parents' Equity
Can your parents' home equity stand in for a deposit? See how guarantor home loans work, what the guarantor risks and how the guarantee is released.
What Finance & Coffee Offers Mortgage Brokers
Finance & Coffee is a broker community built around a members-only Facebook group. See what it gives brokers and where peer answers need a lender check.
First Home Owner Grant (FHOG): Amounts by State
Each state and territory sets its own First Home Owner Grant (FHOG). Find the amount, property rules and value cap where you are buying.
What is a Fixed-Rate Mortgage in Australia?
Fixing locks your repayment for one to five years, but break costs, rate-lock fees and the revert rate decide whether a fixed rate mortgage suits you.
What is a Full Doc Loan? Documents Lenders Need
If the lender wants full documentation, gather payslips, tax returns and statements first. See what a full doc loan needs and how it compares with low doc.
Green Home Loans in Australia: How to Qualify
Green home loan discounts need a NatHERS or Green Star certificate, not just solar panels. Here is how to qualify in Australia and where the CEFC fits.
Historical Mortgage Rates in Australia
How high and low have historical mortgage rates gone in Australia? See what the 17% peak and the 0.10% cash-rate floor measure, and where rates sit now.
Bad Credit Home Loans: Credit-Impaired Lending
Can you get a home loan with bad credit? Credit-impaired lenders weigh the event, its age and your conduct since. See what they charge.
Home Loan Eligibility: Criteria and How to Check
If you want to know whether you qualify for a home loan, start with the eligibility criteria, the documents and what banks check.
Home Loan Terms: How Long a Mortgage Runs
Most Australian home loans run for 30 years, but home loan terms vary and age can cap them. Compare 25 and 30 years on total interest.
House Staging: What It Involves and When It Pays
Selling before you buy again? House staging changes how buyers see your home. Compare owner-led, partial and full staging and what each costs.
Who is Illion? Experian, Credit Files and Tools
Who is illion now? Its consumer credit bureau is part of Experian. See what that means for credit files, BankStatements and illion credit tools.
What is an Independent Mortgage Broker?
See what an independent mortgage broker is and how to become one. Can a commission-paid broker legally call their business independent?
Local Influencer Marketing for Mortgage Brokers
If a local influencer promotes your brokerage, Australian rules make it your credit advertising. Pick the creator, agree disclosure and track enquiries.
Interest Rate Hedging for Mortgage Brokers
For home-loan brokers, hedging interest rates means fixed, split and offset loans, not swaps or caps. See where the AFSL line sits and how to size a split.
How to Build an Internal Knowledge Base
If staff keep asking where the latest policy note lives, build one internal knowledge base: what goes in, which platform suits and how to keep it current.
Invoice Discounting and Factoring in Australia
Compare invoice discounting with factoring: who collects from customers, how much the funder advances, the fees and whether commissions qualify.
Largest Mortgage Brokers and Groups in Australia
Who are the biggest mortgage broking groups in Australia, and how do AFG, LMG, Lendi Group, Mortgage Choice, Connective, Finsure and YBR differ?
Lender Panels by Mortgage Aggregator in 2026
Which lenders can you reach through each aggregator? See the published panels for AFG, Finsure, Connective, LMG and more, and test one on your book.
AFG Home Loans Lending Policy 2026
Each AFG Home Loans line, from Alpha to Retro, has its own pay and credit terms. Your client's line sets the upfront, trail, clawback and evidence rules.
AMP Bank Lending Policy 2026
When an AMP Bank loan changes, check whether pay continues or is recovered. Match refinance and top-up plans to its borrower and security rules.