What Is a Wholesale Investor Certificate? Eligibility Tests Explained
What a wholesale investor certificate is, who can sign one, what it costs, and why the Act says six months when the answer is two years.
What Does Unsecured Actually Mean on a Business Loan?
What unsecured means on an Australian business loan: director guarantees, GSAs, PPSR registrations, default rights and what must be released after payout.
Cost Overrun Mid-Build: Who Owes It and Who Will Fund It
Builder wants more money mid-build? When variations and site costs are payable in NSW, Vic, Qld and WA, how to dispute one, and who funds the gap.
What Documents Do You Need to Buy an Accommodation Business?
Australian lender checklist for buying a motel, pub, caravan park or management rights business: documents, suppliers, consents and settlement risks.
How Practice Finance Works for Medical, Dental and Vet Owners
How practice finance works in Australia: goodwill valuation, 100% funding, practice buy-ins, funding gaps, lender assessment, contracts and settlement.
Can You Finance a Development Site Before DA Approval?
How development site finance works before DA approval in Australia: bank and private lender appetite, as-is valuation, equity, security, costs and exit.
What Lenders Actually Test in a Development Feasibility
Australian lenders test your feasibility against three rulebooks, and none sets a minimum profit margin. What APS 112 and ASIC RG 45 actually require.
Second Mortgage Behind a Construction Loan: Consent, Priority, Cost
How a second mortgage sits behind a construction facility in Australia, from first mortgagee consent and deeds of priority to what registration costs.
Buying Off Market With a Short Settlement: What to Check First
Off market purchase on a short settlement: cooling off in all 8 states and territories, the legal floor on settlement speed, and how to fund it.
Bridging, Caveat or Second Mortgage: Which One Do You Need?
Bridging finance, a caveat loan and a second mortgage are three different legal structures. What each secures, how a lender enforces it, and which fits.
NDIS SDA Housing Finance Australia: How Lenders Assess It
How Australian lenders assess NDIS SDA housing finance: valuation, LVR, income, provider risk, construction, enrolment, completion gaps and refinance.
How to Get Out of Cross-Collateralisation in Australia
How to get out of cross-collateralisation in Australia: partial discharge, security substitution, retained LVR, valuations, costs and lender refusals.
Farm Debt Mediation: What Happens Next and How Refinancing Works
Farm debt mediation explained: the five states with a scheme, what the bank can and cannot do, and who lends to a farmer afterwards.
Can You Get a Construction Loan When Self-Employed? How It Works
Self-employed construction loans in Australia: income evidence, deposits, LVR, valuation shortfalls, contracts, progress payments and build risks.
How Private Lending Actually Works in Australia
Who private lenders are, what they need from your structure, what it costs on a net-advance basis, and what protection you have. General information.
What Happens When Your DA Lapses or Is Amended? Refinancing the Site
Your DA has lapsed or changed. Learn what happens to site value and your loan, whether you can refinance, what lenders need and what to do first.
Buying an Underperforming Accommodation Business: The Turnaround File
The motel or pub is under-trading and the historical figures do not support the price. What a lender funds, what it defers, and when you can refinance.
Waiting on an Insurance Payout? What Australian Businesses Can Do
Most commercial cover falls outside the Code's 4 month claim clock. What your insurer owes you, the advance few businesses ask for, and when finance fits.
Bought at Auction and the Bank Won't Settle in Time? Your Options
Auction settlement delayed by the buyer's side? See how dates are counted, request an extension, protect the deposit and assess the next options.
Valuation Came In Under the Contract Price? What Happens Next
Bank valuation below the contract price? Calculate the real shortfall, check your contract, challenge the valuation and compare ways to fund the gap.