Debt consolidation service
When refinance bundles personal loans, cards, or tax debt into home loan collateral.
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Debt consolidation hub
Debt consolidation — true cost, policy, and refinance paths
Consolidation can lower monthly outflows but often extends total interest paid — the trade-off needs to be explicit before you lodge.
This hub links the debt consolidation service page, refinance tooling, and a downloadable checklist for limits, fees, and behaviour guardrails.
Enquire with a list of debts (limit, balance, rate) for a broker-backed comparison — not just a headline home loan rate.
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Refinance calculator & PDF
Savings, break-even, and optional cash-out context.
Refinance hub
Playground, calculators, official tools, and switch-lender guides.
Refinancing articles
Hardship, retention, and market-timing reads.
Enquire — consolidation review
Topic: debt consolidation — attach debt schedule if you have it.
Before you consolidate
Rolling personal debt into your mortgage?
Download a checklist covering true cost, lender policy, and behaviour traps — work through it before you lodge a cash-out refinance.
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- June-quarter CPI drops 29 July — your mortgage playbook before the August RBA (Australia 2026)
Strategy
Cash rate is 4.35% after June's hold — but June-quarter CPI lands 29 July and the RBA meets 11 August. With trimmed mean inflation sticky at 3.6%, here is what buyers and mortgage holders should do in the next five weeks.
- Nearly half of refinancers reset to 30 years — the hidden cost on your home loan (Australia 2026)
Refinancing
New survey data suggests 47% of Australian refinancers extend their loan back to 30 years — and 8% did not realise until after settlement. Here is what that does to total interest, how to compare term-for-term, and a free calculator on the refinance hub.
The RBA held the cash rate at 4.35% on 16 June 2026 — but the Board explicitly left further hikes on the table while inflation stays above target. Here is the broker-grade breakdown with primary RBA sources, what still moves on your home loan, and a practical household checklist.
The RBA left the cash rate at 4.35% in June 2026 — but RBA data shows existing variable borrowers still pay about 48 basis points more than new customers. Here is the EOFY refinance check that turns that gap into dollars on your loan.
Most overpayment calculators model one lever. This guide walks through stacking frequency, weekly extras, offset, annual lump sums, and a rate review in the Australian payoff hub — with fixed-rate caps and compliance notes.
“Pay off in 10 years” sounds great in a headline — but on a typical Australian mortgage it requires a large surplus, a sharp rate, or both. Here’s the income-to-repayment maths, what actually moves the needle, and when to use the payoff playground instead of wishful thinking.
Break-even is switching costs divided by monthly saving — but only if you price term-for-term. This guide walks through the Australian refinance playground: real costs, loyalty tax, and when refinance pays back.
Discharge fee, application fee, valuation, government charges — and what not to count. Use this checklist in the refinance playground cost slider so break-even reflects real switching maths.
A lower monthly repayment after refinance can hide six figures in extra lifetime interest if your lender resets you to 30 years. Use the term reset trap calculator on the refinance hub — term-for-term vs reset side by side.
Lenders often have a better rate for existing customers — but only if you ask the retention desk with the right numbers. Copy-paste email templates, a phone pitch that works, what to research first, and three worked scenarios (general information only).
With 30 June approaching, lenders tighten how they read bank statements, tax refunds land, and refinance files stall on messy paperwork. Here is a practical EOFY checklist for homeowners, first home buyers, investors, and self-employed borrowers — with free tools on Azure Home Loans.
Minimum wage, tax cuts, paid parental leave, HECS thresholds, Help to Buy limits, ACT stamp duty, Medicare Levy Surcharge and more — a sourced guide to every 1 July 2026 change that can shift your borrowing power, repayments, or deposit maths.