Licensee Credit Guide

This document provides information about the services we provide.

 

We are licensed to arrange loans and leases under the National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009 (NCCP Act). The NCCP Act regulates the activity of lending, leasing, and finance broking.

Licensee Details

Australian Credit License Number:

392742 – Real Estate Home Loans Pty Ltd
Director – Paul Ballinger
Address 1311 Sturt Street Ballarat
Phone 0353201555
Email info@rehl.com.au

Services We Provide

As your mortgage broker, we will act as your lending expert; making sure you understand the loan repayments, loan features, fees and charges of your home loan.
Saving you time and money, we can search hundreds of loan products from a panel bank and non-bank lenders, comparing fees, charges and loan features to best suit your lifestyle.
If you need it, we can also help you with your car finance, business finance or insurance needs.

Our Panel Lenders

We source finance from a panel of financiers. The financiers named below are the six financiers with which we conduct the most business.
ANZ, CBA, ING, Macquarie Bank, Vow Home Loans, Westpac

 

We will need information from you

Under the NCCP Act, we are obliged to ensure that any loan or principal increase to a loan we help you to obtain, or any lease we help you to enter, is not unsuitable for you. To decide this, we may need to ask you some questions in order to assess whether the loan or lease is not unsuitable. The law requires us to:

  • make reasonable inquiries about your requirements and objectives;
  • make reasonable inquiries about your financial situation;
  • take reasonable steps to verify that financial situation.

 

Credit will be unsuitable if at the time of the assessment, it is likely that:

  • you could not pay or could only pay with substantial hardship;
  • the credit will not meet your requirements and objectives.

For example, if you can only repay by selling your principal place of residence, it is presumed that the loan will cause substantial hardship unless the contrary is proved. For this reason we must ask you to provide a significant amount of information. It is therefore very important that the information you provide us is accurate.

We must provide you with a copy of our preliminary credit assessment of your application if you ask within seven years of when we assist you. We are only required to give you a copy of the credit assessment if we give you credit assistance.

If we arrange a loan for you to purchase or refinance real estate, remember you must make your own enquiries about the value of the real estate and its potential for future growth. Although we may obtain a valuation, that is for our own use and you should not rely on it.

Fees payable by you

We do not charge you for the credit services because we receive commission from the financier or our mortgage aggregator. However, you may need to pay the financier’s application fee, valuation fees, and other fees. If in the event a lender/aggregator claws back (takes back) a commission you agree to pay this amount on invoice from us. Clawbacks usually occur where a loan is paid out within 2 years of settlement

Commissions received by us

We may receive commissions from the lenders and lessors who provide finance for you as our customers. These are not fees payable by you. You may obtain from us information about a reasonable estimate of those commissions and how the commissions are worked out.

Our internal dispute resolution scheme

We believe that it is essential for our customers to be able to identify and deal with a broker who has the ability, authority and proper training to hear and respond appropriately to any complaints or disputes. We are committed to the effective handling of complaints and timely resolution of disputes.

Receiving complaints and the complaint process

If you have a complaint or a dispute, you have the option of either contacting us or lodging the complaint directly with our External Dispute Resolutions Scheme indicated below.
You should explain the details of your complaint as clearly as you can. You may do this verbally or in writing. When we receive a complaint, we will attempt to resolve it promptly. We hope that in this way we will stop any unnecessary and inappropriate escalation of minor complaints.

We will observe the following principles in handling your complaint:

  • there is no requirement for face-to-face contact between you and us, although it may be useful for us to come to a satisfactory resolution;
  • We expect that both parties will make a genuine attempt to resolve a complaint promptly;
  • We expect that both parties will provide all essential and relevant information, documents, written statements and any other materials that may properly and reasonably be believed to assist in resolving the complaint;
  • We expect that both parties will comply with all reasonable requests from the other party to provide information within a reasonable time frame.

Timeframes for response

If your request cannot be resolved immediately, we will respond to your request within five (5) business days of receipt of the complaint. We will keep you informed of the progress of the investigation.

Our external dispute resolution scheme

If we do not reach agreement on your complaint, you may refer the complaint to an ASIC Approved External Dispute Resolution (EDR) Scheme. Our external dispute resolution provider is CIO (Credit & Investments Ombudsman).

Free call: 1800 138 422
Phone: 02 9273 8400
Fax: 02 9273 8440
Website: www.cio.org.au
Mail: Case Management Team
C-/Credit & Investment
Ombudsman
PO Box A252
Sydney South NSW 1235

External dispute resolution is a free service established to provide you with an independent mechanism to resolve specific complaints.

More information

If you have any questions about this credit guide or anything else about our services, just ask at any time. We’re here to help you.