Buying your first home…
start to finish
The whole journey in plain English, from getting your deposit ready
to the day you collect the keys.
What this guide is
Buying your first home is one of the biggest financial decisions you will make, and most people go into it piecing information together from a dozen different places. This guide pulls it into one clear place.
It walks you through the whole process: getting your finances ready, grants and schemes you may be entitled to, how deposits and lenders mortgage insurance work, the loan basics, making an offer, and the path from offer to settlement. It also covers the mistakes first home buyers most often make, so you can sidestep them.
It is general information written to help you prepare, not financial advice. Think of it as the head start a friend in the industry would give you before you begin.
Free to download. No jargon, no pressure.
What is inside
Fourteen short chapters, each one a piece of the process you will actually meet along the way.
Getting finances ready
Deposits & LMI
Grants & schemes
Loan basics
Buy to live or rentvest
Making the offer
Approval to settlement
Common mistakes
Plus a full plain-English glossary of every term you will run into.
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This guide is general information to help you prepare, not financial or legal advice. Rules, grants and processes differ by state and change over time. For advice on your situation and your finance, speak to Allies of Finance and your conveyancer.