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Bankwest

Rate Tracker

Tue, 2009-03-10 10:22 — administrator

Rate Tracker Ultra - Application fee = $595

*Includes legal fees for standard mortgage preparation and one standard valuation*

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Bankwest Rate Tracker Home Loan Withdrawn

Tue, 2009-01-20 11:54 — Broker

The Bankwest Rate Tracker Home Loan will be withdrawn from sale, across all Bankwest channels, from tonight.

All applications for the Rate Tracker will need to be submitted electronically by this evening.

A new product, Bankwest Rate Tracker Ultra, will be launched tomorrow. More details to follow shortly.

Bankwest Lowers Variable Home Loan Rate 0.60 Percent

Fri, 2008-11-07 17:04 — administrator

Effective 10th November 2008 Bankwest variable interest rate home loans will be changing.

Bankwest Lite Home Loan
Bankwest Lite Plus Home Loan
Mortgage Shredder (excluding 12 Month Fixed Intro)
Bankwest Easy Doc Home Loan
Bankwest Seniors Equity Release
Bankwest Equity Access
Home Owners Loan

The variable rate on the above home loan products is reducing 0.60 percent.

Commonwealth Bank buys Bankwest

Wed, 2008-10-08 10:35 — administrator

COMMONWEALTH BANK OF AUSTRALIA TO ACQUIRE BANKWEST AND ST ANDREW’S

Sydney, 8 October 2008:

The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (the Group) has acquired the Bank of Western Australia Limited (BankWest) and St Andrew’s Australia Pty Ltd (St Andrew’s) through the execution of a sale and purchase agreement with UK based HBOS plc.

The purchase does not extend to HBOS’s other Australian businesses - Capital Finance Australia Ltd, BOS International (Australia) Ltd and HBOS’s Australian Treasury operations. Read more

Withdrawal of BankWest Rate Tracker

Wed, 2008-07-30 15:00 — Broker

Effective today, Wednesday 30 July, BankWest is withdrawing their best-selling Rate Tracker Product from its suite of mortgage products available through finance brokers.

Any pre approved applications will not be honoured. These include applications in the system that are not yet formally approved i.e customer has no contract to purchase (this does not include complete applications that are currently conditionally approved and have not yet gone unconditional - these will be honoured). Read more

Bankwest Fixed Interest Rate Increase

Thu, 2008-05-01 19:11 — wes@ability

Bankwest fixed interest rates increase effective from tomorrow Friday 2nd May 2008

1 Year Fixed Home Loan + 0.14 percent
2 Year Fixed Home Loan + 0.04 percent
3 Year Fixed Home Loan + 0.4 percent
4 Year Fixed Home Loan + 0.1 percent
5 Year Fixed Home Loan + 0.25 percent
Mortgage Shredder 12 Month Fixed Intro + 0.3 percent

Variable Interest Rate Increase 0.35% at BankWest

Tue, 2008-03-11 14:42 — Broker

Australian Bank lifts interest rates 0.10 percent above the Reserve Bank 0.25 percent increase

Tuesday 11th March 2008

Bankwest today announced variable interest rate home loans will increase by between 0.25 percent and 0.35 percent following the Reserve Bank of Australia official rate rise of 0.25 percent earlier this month.

The increase will be effective from tomorrow Wednesday the 12th of March 2008

Variable rate home loans increasing by 0.25 percent are the Mortgage Shredder 12 Month Variable Intro and the Mortgage Shredder Read more

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