Australia's plain-English finance education · Est. 2021
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Learn the money stuff first.
Then take the next step.
How we help
Australia's plain-English finance education, with a vetted advisor network attached.
Plain-English guides, free calculators, and answers to the questions you weren't sure you were allowed to ask. When you're ready, tell us your situation and we'll connect you with the right independent specialist, at no cost to you.
Free · no obligation · 24-hour response
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The 2026 first-home buyer's playbook
For business
Equipment finance guide
For your driveway
Car loan guide
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Plain-English guides, free to read
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Free calculators & decision tools
1,000+
Australians we’ve helped take a next step
98%
Of readers say a guide answered what they came for
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Where would you like to start?
Pick the path that fits. Read at your pace. Get matched only when you're ready.
Education first. Connect second. Always in that order.
Path 01 · 8 stages
First Home Buyer
Eight stages from “maybe I’m ready” to keys in hand, with the schemes, numbers and costs explained without the broker pitch.
~96 min readStart
Path 02 · 6 stages
Refinancing
Six stages on whether to switch lenders, what it really costs, and how to avoid the cashback traps.
~56 min readStart
Path 03 · 7 stages
Property Investor
Seven stages on investor borrowing, structure, tax, equity, SMSF traps, and assembling the team, written for the buyer who wants the trade-offs, not the pitch.
~78 min readStart
Path 04 · 5 stages
Buying Your Next Home
Five stages on selling first vs buying first, how much equity you really have, bridging finance, and the settlement timing most agents won’t walk you through.
~48 min readStart
Path 05 · 6 stages
Self-Employed Home Loan
Six stages on how lenders treat self-employed income, the documents you need, low-doc options, and the decisions that get an application across the line.
~60 min readStart
Path 06 · 6 stages
Building or Buying a New Home
Six stages on land-and-build, off-the-plan and new-build paths, including the construction loan mechanics and the sunset-clause traps that catch most buyers.
~60 min readStart
Where do you want to start?
Pick a topic. We'll point the way.
The library
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Decide when you're ready.
Every guide is written by an advisor in our network, then edited until your nan could follow it. No paywalls. No affiliate fluff.
Home★ Most read
The 2026 first-home buyer's playbook
Grants, schemes, deposit hacks, and the order to do everything in.
12 min · 2 May
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Curated learning paths
Not sure where to start?
We've sequenced it for you.
Each path is a hand-picked sequence of guides, short enough to finish, deep enough to actually act on. Read in order or jump around.
017 guides · ~90 min
The First Home Path
From "I want to buy" to keys-in-hand
- 01Understand your borrowing power
- 02Decode every grant and scheme
- 03Build your deposit faster
- 04Win at auction without overpaying
Start the path →
026 guides · ~75 min
The Car Finance Path
From dealer pitch to a fair finance structure
- 01Decode dealer vs broker maths
- 02Compare secured, unsecured, and EV options
- 03Avoid balloon-payment traps
- 04Negotiate the rate, not just the car
Start the path →
038 guides · ~100 min
The SME Finance Path
From first ABN-funded asset to a real facility
- 01Match the structure to your cashflow
- 02Choose between chattel, lease, hire purchase
- 03Get the tax treatment right
- 04Build a finance facility that scales
Start the path →
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Run the numbers
before the conversation.
Fifteen free calculators for home, car, business, and personal finance. Borrowing power, repayments, refinance savings, stamp duty, LMI. Calculate it yourself, then talk to a real human when you're ready.
The right fit, for your situation
Whatever your money question is,
there's a specialist for it.
Once you've read up and you know what you're after, tell us your situation. We'll match you to the independent specialist whose entire career is built on solving problems exactly like yours.
For: First-home buyers
"How do I actually start?"
A broker who specialises in first-home schemes, government grants, and getting you over the LMI line.
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For: Car & EV buyers
"Is the dealer ripping me off?"
A broker who shops the panel for you, models balloon vs amortise, and stops the dealer maths from masquerading as a discount.
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For: Self-employed & business owners
"Why does every bank say no?"
A broker who understands BAS-driven income, structures the application properly, and sources working capital, asset, and invoice finance.
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For: Refinancers & consolidators
"Am I overpaying?"
A broker who models your loan against 40+ lenders and only switches you if it actually saves money. Plus debt consolidation that doesn't backfire.
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For: Property investors
"How do I scale without overextending?"
A strategist who builds portfolio plans across cycles, not someone selling you their off-the-plan stock.
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For: Households consolidating
"How do we tidy up our money?"
A broker plus planner pair who look at home loan, personal debt, and cashflow together, not in three separate conversations.
Get connected Every specialist we connect you with is independent, vetted, reference-checked and reviewed quarterly. Connection is free for you. Licensed brokers who meet our criteria pay Your Finance Guide a partnership fee to receive enquiries from this site, and the fee is never added to your loan.
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Three questions. We'll send you to one independent specialist whose entire practice is built on situations like yours. Free, no obligation, no comparison spam.
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They reach out within 24 hours
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What are you working through?
From the newsroom
What just moved in finance.
Plain-English reporting on the rate cycle, banking, property and policy. Every byline is a named editor with credentials; every piece is dated and reviewed.
Compare lenders
56 Australian lenders. One directory.
Independent reference for 11 major-bank-aligned lenders, 9 customer-owned mutuals, 9 non-banks and digital challengers, and 21 SME and consumer specialists. Editorial position, product range, strengths and trade-offs for each. Live rates sit with the lender; we link out for the current number.
Find a broker
A broker who knows your city.
National lender panel, local context. Major-bank rate cards are national, but the policy overlay (LVR caps by postcode, valuation tolerances, accepted property types) varies by capital. We cover 8 capital cities and 160+ Australian suburbs with editorial reference for each market.
Our charter
Educate first.
Connect second.
Always in that order.
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Education is the product
Not a hook. The guides, calculators and answers stand on their own, free, ungated, unsponsored.
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Criteria first
Licensed brokers who meet our criteria pay us a partnership fee to receive enquiries. The criteria come first. The fee alone never buys a place.
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One match, not five
You don't need a comparison spreadsheet. You need the right human. We do the picking.
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Tell us when we're wrong
Every match gets a feedback loop. Specialists who slip get removed. We'd rather lose them than you.
What our broker partner's clients say
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broker-partner reviews.
These reviews come from our broker partner's clients. We don't cherry-pick; read the lot, including the few who didn't love their match, on the reviews page.
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