The two main mortgage insurers are GE & PMI, but there are plenty of others as already mentioned.

Some lenders to not mortgage insure, but instead have a ‘loan equalisation fee’ which for all intensive purposes is a similar beast.

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In your finance clause, specify the amount and the lender.

“Subject to finance for $300,000 from Westpac”.

Make sure you specify a due date for the fiance (at least 2 weeks, preferably 3 if they’ll accept it). If you don’t have finace by the due date, or you want to pull out, you much communicate this prior to the cut off.

The easiest way to figure out what’s in demand is to ask a few rental agents ‘What sort of property can’t you get enough of?’. This has always produced great information for me.

In NSW I beleive that you are required to put down a 10% deposit by law, otherwise the contract is not binding and the agent can sell the property to another party.

In Vic and WA it’s definitly negotiable.