As a finance broker each of our team at Up Loans are under compliance restrictions where they cannot submit an application to a bank that they do not feel will service (show borrowing capacity) and be approved. As such if you come to a team member at Up Loans with a contract that has been signed and we do not have a solid option for you we cannot […]

Oftentimes a client in a relationship will have owned a property prior to entering the relationship. When doing new lending the following are options for how that lending will impact the previous property:   Let’s say Jenny and Joe are in a relationship and Jenny owned her own house prior to meeting Joe. Now Jenny and Joe want to buy a house together.   Options for Jenny’s current […]

  Kirsty has recorded a quick video here answering a very commonly asked question about how savings / equity impacts on borrowing capacity. In effect they’re the two halves of borrowing. We need either equity and or savings AND the income in / out – but having equity / savings doesn’t necessarily give you extra borrowing capacity. Have a watch and ask any questions. Side note, this was […]

Every time we open up a new application with the bank, we have to prove that you are who we say you are (and not a robot) with an ID check of some description. Because we do a lot of our meetings via Zoom, we’ve found the most reliable way to do this is a screenshot of our initial call with you that shows your broker, you, and […]

Hello, First Home buying friends! We’re lucky enough to be able to help lots of first home buyer clients in our daily work, and there are a few questions that crop up pretty commonly. In the video below, Kirsty & Lucy chat about some common questions asked by first home buyers, plus share some things they wish they’d known when they were looking at purchasing a house for […]