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It’s a matter of choice

Last week, I was talking to a friend about his financial situation – and he said he’d done well investing in property in London during the 1990s. He was working and living there, and realised the rent he was paying was more than the money he would need for a mortgage.

Home loan rates hit a record high (17%) in Australia in June 1989 and stayed there until April 1990. My

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