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Newcastle Perm Home Loan $2500 First Home Buyer / Westpac $3,000 Per Property Rebate + 0.3% Bundle Loan Rebate. Rates from 2.79%

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Happy New Year All!

To celebrate, 2 new great cash back offers for 2020 (to help to donate to the bushfires)

Offer 1

Newcastle Permanent (Canstar’s 2019 NSW customer-owned lender of the year for first home buyers) announced today:
$2,500 cash rebate for First Home Buyers!
Newcastle owner occupied INTEREST ONLY 2yr fixed is 2.79% (CPR 4.02%). Variable from 3.09% (CPR 3.39%)

Offer 2

Westpac $3,000 cash rebate PER property refinance. eg. 3 properties = $9,000 bank rebate.
Rates from 3.04% owner occupied variable, 2.88% fixed 2 years. Westpac give further 0.1% discount for 70%LVR or less.

We expect variable rates to be cut on 4 Feb, but given banks are only passing on around half of the cuts, a low fixed rate can still save you more money as you can get an immediate benefit from today as opposed to waiting for the drop to occur. Given many banks are only passing on 0.1-0.15% each cut, and the RBA cash rate is 0.75%, there can only be a maximum of 3 cuts to zero, which may take a long time or unlikely to occur.

Always worth doing a calculation for your situation, eg:

If you have an existing loan and your rate is 3.29%, fixing at 2.79% will save you 0.5% each year.
On a $500k loan, that is a saving of $2500 every year.
If you're saving 0.5% and go with a lender giving rebates eg Westpac $6,000 for 2 properties, plus our Bundle Rebate of $1,500, that's a further $7500 in rebates, plus $2,500 interest savings, you are getting a benefit of $10,000 in just one year!

0.3% Bundle Rebate

In ADDITION to bank rebates, Bundle Home Loans gives a rebate of 0.3% of loan size (net at drawdown) for ANY bank or product.

Len
Bundle Property Home Loans
T: (02) 9698 7186
M: 0422354868
E: [email protected]

Disclaimer:
The information provided is for general education purposes only and is not intended to constitute specialist or personal advice. This has been provided without taking into account your objectives, financial situation or needs. Because of this, you should consider the appropriateness of the advice to your own situation and needs before taking any action. It should not be relied upon for the purposes of entering into any legal or financial commitments. Specific investment advice should be obtained from a suitably qualified professional before adopting any investment strategy.

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  • +5

    The Newcastle Perm sounds like an 80s hairstyle!

  • Do yo u have any clawback clause in your cashback?

    • Sorry pressed the neg button by accident. How do I cancel it?
      Yes 18-24 months depending on the lender. But if at any time you are not happy or want to leave, you can keep the rebate if I help you with the refinance.

      • Sorry to clarify, this only relates to return of our rebate given to you, we do not charge a fee for lost commission as a result of clawback (unlike alot of other brokers).

  • Offset account? And associated rates?

    • Would be keen to know this too

    • Yes. Offset is incl in the Package for variable. Westpac and Newcastle is both $395 annual fee.
      Fixed has no offset, but has extra repayment and free redraw up to approx $25-$30k over the entire fixed period.
      I recommend adding a variable split for 100% offset.
      Newcastle 2.79% fixed 2yr is also for interest only owner occupied. https://www.newcastlepermanent.com.au/personal/home-loans/pr…

  • Is the Westpac $3000 exclusive to you? Can't see this on their website?

    • Yes it is a current promotion Westpac is running for certain brokers.

  • Any thoughts about wether to go with 2.79% fixed over 2 years or 3.10% variable with offset account? Or a split between both?

    • You can do a split of both for best of both worlds, especially given rate cuts are not as likely as before so fixing is a good option.

      My general advice for choice of variable/fixed split amounts:
      o   Variable amount – try to keep this as low as possible (if rates are higher than fixed) being the maximum extra amount you will repay into the home loan during the fixed period eg 2 or 3 years, so you have enough headroom for offset (as only variable has offset, not fixed).
      o   Fixed amount – try to keep this as high as possible (if rates are lower than variable). That way you enjoy the lowest rate for the majority of your loan, given you will not be able to repay the whole loan during the fixed term in 2 or 3 years.

  • I'll send my documents over..

  • Is there a minimum loan balance?

    • Average of $250k each property refinance for the $3k rebate. Westpac has just announced a $2000 rebate also.

  • hi, wondering this cashback offer from Westpac is applicable to new construction loan?

  • Has anyone refinanced with Westpac and received the 3k refinance? Thanks in advance. I would like to refinance with them but also heard the process is very long.

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