5% Deposit Home Loans: What Actually Changes When You Have Less Than 20%?

Buying with a 5% or 10% deposit in NZ? How the LVR rules, low equity margins, the Kāinga Ora First Home Loan and bank criteria change when you have less than 20%.
Direct to the Bank or go to a Mortgage adviser?

We hear this debated on social media all the time – people saying go directly to the bank for a home loan while others say you should use a mortgage adviser. To help answer this we decided to do a short article and to focus on just the one main reason why going directly to the […]
