First Home Buyer

Dear All, Property developers today are carrying more risk, facing tougher lending conditions, and seeing costs push profitability down to single-digit percentages. To add to this already overwhelming challenge, the market is shifting. Expectations are rising.Buyers, financiers, and government partners increasingly expect developers to contribute to real solutions — not just product.And if that’s not […]

Dear All, Every lender wants the same thing: a strong, resilient loan book with reduced risk and high-performing loans. Yet, in the pursuit of growth, lenders often face a paradox: balancing risk management with the desire to approve more applicants. Attain It All — AffordAssist: A smarter approach to structuring home loans and managing risk.

Dear All, The path to owning a home isn’t just about getting approved.It’s about structuring the loan the right way. And the difference between the right structure and the wrong one can add up to tens of thousands of dollars in interest, years off the mortgage, and significantly faster equity growth. Industry-leading mortgage brokers, accountants,

Dear All, For thousands of Australians, the biggest barrier to home ownership isn’t income—it’s the deposit gap. Traditional solutions—the “sameness equation”—including government cash interventions, shared-equity schemes, guarantor loans, high-LVR mortgages, or SMSF, often come with hidden costs: interest, reduced ownership control, family risk, or lower realised equity. Enter AffordAssist. Our interest-free deferred deposit solution breaks

Dear All, There’s a lot of talk about getting in — grants, shared equity, low-deposit loans, guarantees, higher-LVR lending, help from mum and dad, no LMI fees, and other incentives. But almost no one is talking about the other side: the exit. And without that lens, some solutions may cause more harm than good. The

Dear All, There’s no shortage of innovation in housing finance. Across Australia — and globally — new ideas continue to emerge: shared equity models, micro-deposits, fractional ownership, rent-to-buy programs, higher-interest-rate second mortgages positioned as alternative deposit solutions, cash savings programs, parents, High LVR Loans, Islamic Shariah-compliant home loans designed to align with ethical and faith-based

Dear All, “I offer to buy this property with the AffordAssist Deferred Deposit Solution.” That single sentence is reshaping the way property is bought and sold. Across Australia, many buyers qualify for finance but can’t bridge the deposit gap. They’re ready to buy yet remain stuck with the same solutions, trapped in the same cycle

Dear All,   The Deposit Challenge Saving for a home deposit can take years. Lenders now offer high LVR (Loan-to-Value Ratio) loans — sometimes up to 105% — to help buyers enter the market sooner. While these higher LVR loans can open doors, they often come with greater long-term cost and risk. By comparison, pairing

Dear All It seems that more property developers are leaning on creative financing to keep sales moving, retire existing debt, clear out remaining inventory, shift focus to new projects, and in some cases, boost profit margins. A recent example is ALAND’s announcement: “ALAND HOME LOANS – Making it easier to buy an ALAND apartment with

Dear All It’s time to put innovation into action.The AffordAssist Challenge invites Australians to reimagine how a property deposit can work — and rewards those who help prove what’s possible.   The Challenge Instead of needing the full 10% upfront, with an AffordAssist Deferred Deposit Sale, that amount can be deferred over 60 monthly payments,