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25 March 2021

Podcast: What does the Government's announcement mean for first home buyers?

Newsroom’s Alexia Russell sat down with Chief Squirrel JB to chat about what the Government's recent announcement means for first home buyers. Does it remove the stumbling blocks, or is it still hard as ever for young Kiwis to get onto the property ladder? Are there going to be any unintentional consequences?

19 February 2021

Investing in Construction Loans: two case studies

We haven’t published a case study for a while, so here are two that will provide an overview of the borrowers and loans you’re investing in.

18 November 2020

An update on our Investor platform - November 2020

There’s been a lot happening here at the Squirrel garage and lots of movement in the financial world, so here’s an update on quite a few things.

14 October 2020

An update on our Investor platform - October 2020

An update on Investor activity, new loans soon to be available for snapping up, how our borrowers are tracking with the current economy plus a handy tip.

17 September 2020

An update on our Investor platform - September 2020

An update on Investor activity, interest rates, how our borrowers are tracking with the current economy and a general overview of our platform.

29 July 2020

Regular income is easy with auto withdrawal

Whether you’re a newbie or seasoned investor, using your investments on our P2P platform is an easy way to generate a regular income for yourself.

28 July 2020

Making your money work harder with recurring investment orders

One of the common things we’ve heard from our Investors is that they want to keep their money working as hard as possible at all times. One of the features we offer that helps with this is Recurring Investment Orders which is like a 'set and forget' auto-investing function.

19 June 2020

Investor appetite for risk about to change

While homeowners are relishing the lowest home loan rates we have seen in NZ, investors are doing it tough where ‘safe returns’ at the bank are now often no better than inflation. So what other investment options are there?

14 May 2020

Investing in mortgages - Construction Loan No.2: a case study

As mentioned in our first case study, we’re providing some analyses of our borrowers, so that you can find out more about the type of lending we are doing in our P2P mortgage space, which in turn gets passed on to you as an investment opportunity.

24 April 2020

An update on our P2P Investor platform - April 2020

Read the latest on how the platform is ticking along. We're committed to being completely transparent about how the platform is going including hardship and arrears rates, and how the Reserve Fund is performing.

20 April 2020

Investing in mortgages - Construction Loan No.1: a case study

As mentioned in our first case study, we’re providing some case studies of our borrowers and this time we’ll look at one of our Construction Loans, the second new investing class on the Squirrel platform.

14 April 2020

Does going on a Mortgage Holiday affect your credit score?

In response to Covid-19 and the financial stress that many Kiwis are suddenly facing, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand is allowing banks to offer 6-month ‘mortgage holidays’. Although we prefer the term Mortgage Repayment Deferral because it’s not really a holiday.