Anthony Aoun

Dear All,  Through our lens, what we ‘know’ and what we ‘want’ to know can result in differing attitudes and outcomes.The need for a lens may be due to how we prefer to source information, personal safety, past education, trauma, status, heritage, privilege, lack of resources, social headlines, generational teachings, and more. Consider a discussion […]

Dear All,  We believe that many hands, and many solutions, are needed to help ease the housing crisis. Caution: Traditional “sameness equation” options, including shared-equity schemes, guarantor loans, bank of mum and dad, high-LVR mortgages, or SMSFs — can, in some cases, unintentionally compromise the buyer, cause more harm than good, make exiting or refinancing

Business Development Manager – B2B (National) AffordAssist is on a mission: to make homeownership more accessible through social enterprise. Our innovative interest-free deferred deposit solution helps buyers bridge the gap—borrow smarter, build equity sooner, and buy sooner. AffordAssist stands as one of the most innovative housing-affordability solutions developed in the past 60 years. With industry-leading

Dear All,  For generations, we were taught through stories that included a simple financial lesson, passed down with good intention: work hard, save diligently, build the full deposit. Then, and only then, purchase a home. That lesson made sense and continues to make sense — perhaps even more so today. Because saving forms part of

Dear All,  For many migrants and new arrivals, that decision is not just emotional — it is practical, financial, and deeply personal. It requires commitment to a new system, new laws, new culture, new social norms, and often a new version of oneself. Assimilation begins with a decision.A decision that this is no longer temporary

Dear All,  Traditionally, the word deposit has meant the same thing in Australian property:A large sum of cash upfront — or cash sourced through external funding, guarantees, the Bank of Mum and Dad, SMSFs, complex and often expensive financial arrangements, unsuitable loan products, capital pools, government grants, permanent subsidies, or third-party investors. Driven by present-day

Dear All, We can ease the housing affordability crisis without cash, using solutions that reflect how the economy continues to change and how people actually live, earn, and pay — not just how housing has traditionally been funded: through the Bank of Mum and Dad, equity, guarantors, second mortgages, personal loans, high-risk structures, or ongoing

A Real Deposit Solution — Without the Need for Equity, the Bank of Mum and Dad, Restrictive Eligibility Conditions, or More Than 1% Cash   Dear All, If you’ve been searching for ways to buy a home, you’ve likely seen the ads: “No Deposit Home Loans!”“Buy with No Money Down!” They grab attention — but

Dear All, AffordAssist offers builders a smarter way to secure build contracts with as little as 1% initial cash from the buyer, while reducing reliance on high-cost marketing and sales commissions. Builders no longer need to operate under constant pressure to maintain sales volume while protecting margins. AffordAssist enables this through an interest-free deferred deposit

Dear All, Landlords represent around one-third of Australian households, taking significant financial pressure off government and other housing providers. Rental income may be strong. Equity may exist. Servicing may stack up — yet hundreds of thousands of dollars can remain tied up in deposits. From time to time, discussions around changes to property investment arise