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Many Aussies are making a big mistake with home loans: here’s how

How mortgage hunters could be dudding themselves out of the best deal, all because of an unfounded fear.

Rebecca Le May

Many mortgage hunters have an unfounded fear of non-bank lenders and could be dudding themselves out of the best deal.

After the Reserve Bank of Australia slashed the cash rate to record lows earlier this month, it was the smaller, little-known outfits Athena, Reduce Home Loans, Homestar Finance, Homeloans.com.au and Pacific Mortgage Group that led the charge in passing on interest rate cuts to customers. RateCity research director Sally Tindall said non-bank lenders had helped drive prices down across the entire home loan market, particularly in recent months as record numbers of mortgage holders moved to refinance, especially when it came to fixed rates. “Right now, the lowest fixed rate loan on the market is just 1.…

Newcastle Permanent to supply online lender and "mortgage disruptor" Athena Home Loans with an initial $300 million in home loan funding NEWCASTLE Permanent has joined forces with Athena Home Loans, with the Hunter-founded building society supplying the Sydney-based "mortgage disruptor" an initial $300 million in home loan funding. The Perm, in its 117th year of operations as one of Australia's largest mutual organisations with $11 billion in assets, and the comparatively new online lender Athena announced the strategic partnership in the national home loan market on Wednesday. Under the agreement, Newcastle Permanent will supply Athena with an initial $300 million in home loan funding with the potential for future transactions and a broader partnership. A statement from the Perm said it was able to seize the opportunity when it presented itself due to the organisation's "strong liquidity and capital reserves built over a numb…