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$4288 Home Loan Refinance Cashback, Offset Variable Rate from 5.43% (CR 5.81%), 2-Yr Fixed from 5.79% (CR 7.83%) @ Bank of China

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Hello OzBargainers,

Hope you're all doing well.

Bank of China has extended their cashback offer until the end of September, and is offering super competitive deals, whether you want variable rate or fixed rate.

  • $4288 cashback for refinance and $2000 for property purchase, paid within 2 months of settlement.
  • Apply by 30 September 2023 and settle by 31 December 2023.
  • Minimum loan size $250,000.
  • LVR not more than 80%.
  • Repayment direct debit must be from the Bank of China bank account/offset account, and a branch visit is required to open it.
  • Excludes foreign income earners.
  • Excludes customers who received a cashback from Bank of China in the last 12 months.

Some of the popular offers:

Loan Type Variable Rate (LVR <=70%) Variable Rate (LVR 80%) 2-Year Fixed Rate
Owner Occupied (Principal & Interest) 5.43% (CR 5.81%) 5.53% (CR 5.91%) 5.79% (CR 7.83%)
Investment (Principal & Interest) 5.93% (CR 6.30%) 6.03% (CR 6.40%) 6.09% (CR 8.13%)
Investment (Interest Only) 6.23% (CR 6.60%) 6.33% (CR 6.70%) 6.19% (CR 8.15%)
  • Indicative fees: $395 annual fee for variable rate loan ($190 for fixed rate loan if not split with variable), free valuation for property value <=$1m, legal fee/disbursements at cost, Rate Lock fee $700 for fixed rate (optional)
  • Offset account available with the variable rate loan, at no extra charge

We also work with other banks, such as the following:

  • ANZ: $4000 refinance cashback & $3000 first home buyer cashback, variable rates from 5.75% (CR 5.75%)
  • Bank of Queensland: $3000 refinance cashback, variable rates from 5.84% (CR 5.99%)
  • ME Bank: $2000-$4000 refinance cashback per property, variable rates from 5.93% (CR 5.95%)
  • St.George/Bank of Melbourne/BankSA: $2000 refinance cashback, variable rates from 5.72% (CR 6.06%)

Kind regards,

Arman Soetanto
M: 0431 825 128
E: [email protected]
W: www.lendingclinic.com.au
Lending Clinic Pty Ltd (Credit Representative Number 511270) is authorised under Australian Credit Licence Number 384704

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        • +3

          Imagine being a '50-cent' army on Ozbargain. How can you stoop so low and try to pass away with such blatant lies.

          Here let me help you:

          "Implementation
          In March 2018, Reuters reported that restrictions on citizens and businesses with low social credit ratings and thus low trustworthiness, would come into effect on 1 May 2018.[46][47] By May 2018, several million flight and high-speed train trips had been denied to people who had been blacklisted;[35] as of March 2019, 13 million people were on the list.[8]

          By 2018, some restrictions had been placed on citizens which state-owned media described as the first step toward creating a nationwide social credit system.[34][35][36][37][38][39][excessive citations]

          In 2019, a Hebei court released an app showing a "map of deadbeat debtors" within 500 meters and encouraged users to report individuals who they believed could repay their debts.[48] A spokesman of the court stated that "It's a part of our measures to enforce our rulings and create a socially credible environment."[49]

          In April 2019, the People's Bank of China announced that a new version of the Personal Credit Report would be put out which allows the ability to collect more personal information. State-run media has described it as "more detailed, more comprehensive and more precise."[50]

          As of June 2019, according to the National Development and Reform Commission of China, 26.82 million air tickets as well as 5.96 million high-speed rail tickets had been denied to people who were deemed "untrustworthy" (失信) (on a blacklist) and 4.37 million "dishonest" people had chosen to fulfill their duties required by the law.[51][52] In July 2019, additional 2.56 million flight tickets as well as 90 thousand high-speed train tickets were denied to those on the blacklist.[53]

          In a 2022 directive, the State Council stated that it will "actively explore innovative ways to use the credit concept and methods to solve difficulties, bottlenecks, and painful points that restrict the country's economic and social activities."[24]

          By 14 November, 2022, a draft law called Establishment of the Social Credit System for fine-tuning the Social Credit System was posted[where?] for one month.[54]"

          • @bloomingheck: LOL YOU QUOTED WIKI?
            Oh boy haha. Imagine lacking the knowledge that you shamefully rely on a wiki page for your misinformation
            Congratulations, you played yourself lmao.

            • +3

              @TightAl: And you have what? Nada … can't even refute any of the points.

              Enjoy your 50c!

              • +1

                @bloomingheck: You gave no points? Imagine using your western lens and applying it in China. Lmao}
                Probably the same if Muslims started telling AUstralia how they should run their country and soceity.
                Here you go: https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/11/22/1063605/china-an…

                Open your narrow mind up a bit :)

                • +2

                  @TightAl: When you are in a hole, stop digging. Everyone can see you are an absolute CCP shill. You brazenly told people that the Chinese Social Credit system doesn't exist. I have provided clear evidence that it does, with many references. Anyone with half a brain can go and look it up themselves (unless they are in China where everything is censored). Then you go on some rants about Muslims in Australia. If I was paying you 50c to spread my propaganda, I would want my money back. You're absolutely hopeless.

                  • @bloomingheck: You copied wiki lmao, loser.

                    • @TightAl: Of course I put the wikipedia as the reference because it also provided clear reference links that anyone can look up. Do you think I would sit here on a Sat and wrote all that for you? How stupid!

                      At the end of the day, you have been caught out as a CCP shill and can't take it. Need to hand back your 50c to your masters back in the Chinese Propaganda ministry I'm sorry to say.

                      • +1

                        @bloomingheck: CcP ShILl omg it hurts, help me
                        Chinese should speak about the indigenous genocide happening in Australia, absolutely shocking.

      • +1

        US banks have known to rip off their customers, often go default and steal money outright. Didn't a few US banks just defaulted in the past year?

        • -1

          Yeah right

          https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-07-13/thugs-…

          Name me a US bank which defaulted this year or last year where the depositors lost money? Otherwise you are just another shill. Or the same shill with a different account. How pathetic.

          • +1

            @bloomingheck: https://www.fdic.gov/resources/resolutions/bank-failures/fai…

            Straight from the US GOV website. It was literally all over the news.

            • +1

              @teatea: You do know the difference between depositors and shareholders right? NO US BANK CUSTOMERS LOST MONEY! I had to spelt that out for you since you do not seem to know the difference between customers/depositors vs shareholders. Unlike in China where the Chinese banks hired thugs to beat up customers, ie. depositors, who tried to get their own money out from the failed Chinese Banks.

              Looks like you won't be getting your 50c. You are so bad at understanding the basics, your propaganda argument bounced right back and made a right fool of you.

  • BOC drama aside, Arman is such a pleasure to deal with. Quick replies, knowledgeable, and very helpful. I tried to contact other brokers who actively post on OZBargain, and they never get back to me or ghost me as soon as I ask if they offer cashback. I would definitely deal with Arman for my future projects.

  • Please excuse my ignorance but can I refinance my fully offset mortgage and get the cashback?

    Seems it would easily offset the $395 yearly fee, and I could refinance after 12 months elsewhere.

    Thanks.

  • Hi OP,
    Is this bank covered by Financial Claims Scheme (FCS)? Thanks.

    • There is information on the Bank of China website about it: https://www.bankofchina.com/au/en/aboutus/ab6/201802/t201802…

      • @Mortgage Broker
        It says…The FCS applies to the Bank of China (Australia) Limited only (which is a locally incorporated ADI) and not to the Bank of China Limited, Sydney Branch (which is a foreign ADI).

        Can I know is this Bank of China (Australia) or Bank of China Limited, Sydney Branch?

        • +2

          The loan contract is with Bank of China (Australia) Limited.

  • +3

    I have been with this bank for 2 years. There is nothing wrong with services. The loan deal is good. However, you will need to do most of paperworks yourself like getting JP sign mortgage release. My closest Branch is in Sunnybank 4109. The only issues that I have is that their online bank experience is very bad. It is horrible design, wall of text and hard to find information. The statement with dual language Chinese and English is also hard to read. They require physical token to login online banking. Most of other bank using phone, sms for MFA. I understand they want to be secured but this is very inconvenient for me.

    • Thanks for sharing your feedback.

      The mobile app doesn’t need physical security token.

    • Thanks, an actually useful comment!

      My closest branch is a few hundred metres away, and I can live with poor online services so long as they’re functional - I run all regular transactions through credit cards and just use the offset or redraw account to pay monthly cc bills anyway so don’t have to deal with it much.

    • A couple of brokers have suggested to me that Bank of China is known for lots of rate rises even without RBA increases, how has your experience been?

      • +1

        Not many brokers have Bank of China and I doubt they have been using them or monitoring their rates.

        You can see their interest rates on https://www.bankofchina.com/au/en/bocinfo/bi5/index.html (please look for the article called Reference Rates).

        I haven't been monitoring them but I believe they have been following the RBA cash rates.

        • Thanks, they were saying it was the existing customer rates not the advertised rates, and based on client feedback rather than actively monitoring it. It does seem like a good deal, but if I jumped on board and they started raising rates on me out of cycle then I'd be jumping away again pretty quickly and that means no comm for the broker so I can appreciate why brokers might be reluctant to recommend them if this was what they were seeing.

          • +1

            @ely: I don’t think a lot of brokers would have a lot of clients with Bank of China, they are probably making a guess.

            The existing client rates would move alongside the reference rates on that website. I am too lazy to go through them all haha…

            The application does require double the work of the big banks, as they ask for so many documents and more questions.

            • @Mortgage Broker:

              The existing client rates would move alongside the reference rates on that website.

              Do they have a policy to that effect? That's not normally the case, seems like lots of lenders advertise better rates to get new customers than they're offering to their existing customers and that not doing this is a differentiator (e.g. see Athena here and here). If BoC had a policy that said existing customers get the same rate as new customers like that then that would be very reassuring, but it's hard to find any info at all on their site, let alone something like that.

              • +1

                @ely: Rates for existing customers move in accordance to the movement in the reference rates.

                Rates for new customers move in a different manner due to adjustements in the discount margin off the reference rate, sometimes bigger, sometimes smaller, probably depending on campaign/promo, workload, business priorities etc.

                Last year a lot of banks keep giving bigger and bigger discounts to compete with each other.

                But this year we're seeing the opposite trend.

                Athena is the only lender I know who promises to offer the same rates to new and existing customers.

                • @Mortgage Broker: Right, I see what you mean.

                  • +1

                    @ely: I had a look at the BOC reference rates on their website, turns out to be pretty good.

                    Reference rate for Owner Occupied P&I as of 25 May last year: 4.39%.
                    Reference rate for Owner Occupied P&I as of 16 June this year: 8.14%.
                    Increase in BOC reference rate: 3.75%.

                    The RBA cash rate was 0.35% in May last year, 4.10% in June this year.
                    Increase in RBA cash rate: 3.75%.

                    So far they've been following the RBA cash rate.

                    • @Mortgage Broker: Yeah, seems pretty reasonable (although they appear to have just done a random 15bp raise today).

                      • +1

                        @ely: Yeah I think they're getting too busy. Seems to be taking about a month to approve an application. Today's change is only to the discount margin for new applications, doesn’t impact existing customers or applications already submitted yesterday.

                        • @Mortgage Broker: damn, should have applied earlier, now I feel like I'm missing out!

    • +1

      By the way I checked with Bank of China, now they also have a text message option. You still get the physical security device to start with, but after that you can choose the text message verification option.

  • -1

    grrrrrrrrr
    ozie, ozie, ozzie…

  • Any broker cashback on top?

    • +1

      We had one last month, but currently not doing any broker cashback

      • Ok, thanks.

  • POPCORNS. As a side battle, do we trust HSBC?

  • Hi,

    With ANZ variable 5.75% 4000 cashback. Does it include offset account? What is minimum LVR?

    Thanks

    • Yes can have offset account. It's a negotiated rate, probably best if I give you a call?

  • Is it possible to rinse refinancing?
    Has anyone had success refinancing several times?
    Do you lose money breaking current loan? Does the cash back require you to stay with new loan forever?

    Apologies for my ignorance

    • Not forever… :)

      • If I switched to Bank of China, how long to stay usually to obtain the full cash back?

        • Cashback is paid within 2 months.

          • @Mortgage Broker: Are there conditions on the cash back, e.g. stay with the new bank for certain time?

            • @Alekhine: If going through us as your broker, we prefer if you stay at least 12 months so we get paid something; ideally 24 months so we get paid the full amount.

              The bank itself doesn't have any minimum time period.

  • When does this deal expire? Will they stop the cashback promo abruptly?

    • Possible but no news as of now… apply by September, settle by December.
      Variable rate went up 0.15% due to reduction in the discount margin. Fixed rates still the same as of today.

  • do they accept casual employment?

    • Generally not on its own, but if your partner/co-borrower is permanent, it should be okay.

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