Understanding Loan-to-Value Ratios: What Lenders Look At

If you are thinking about buying an investment property, you will hear one term again and again: loan-to-value ratio, or LVR. It sounds technical, yet it is one of the simplest and most important numbers in property finance. It affects how much you can borrow, how...
The city that grew up while nobody was watching

The city that grew up while nobody was watching

January 1993. The Compass Airlines plane door opens and the heat walks in before anyone walks out. That thick, wet Brisbane summer heat that presses on your chest like a warm towel. A young man steps onto the tarmac and into a city for the very first time that...