Your interest rates survival guide
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Your interest rates survival guide

B1IntermediateNovember 7, 202624 min
  • Business & money

Fear & Greed is proud to share an episode of our sister podcast - How Do They Afford That? - out every Wednesday, wherever you get your podcasts. Mortgage repayments are taking a bigger and bigger bite out of household budgets. And with interest rates rising again this week, putting even more pressure on families, what can you actually do to make your mortgage more manageable? Join Canna Campbell - a financial planner for 20 years - and Fear & Greed's Michael Thompson for a practical mortgage survival guide, covering how to negotiate a better rate, when refinancing makes sense...

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Welcome to How Do They Afford That? The podcast that peeks into the financial lives of everyday Australians. I'm Michael Thompson. I'm an author and the co-host of the Business News podcast, Fear and Greed.

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As always, I'm with Kanna Campbell, Financial Planner, and the founder of Financial Literacy Platform, Sugarmummer TV. And most importantly, if I can pick one thing that you do that is most important, it is my co-author on our book, 12 Months to Financial Freedom.

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Hello, Kanna. Good morning. We need to talk about mortgages. Ah, the mortgage stress.

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