Laine Gordon

Head of Public Relations

Laine Gordon is the Head of Public Relations at RateCity and an experienced journalist and research specialist. With a background in news and feature writing, covering finance, media and even food (a passion of hers) at Reed Elsevier publications, Laine brings almost two decades of experience to the team. Having covered major areas of interest to the general public from hip pocket issues to rising and falling interest rates and the impact to mortgages, credit and saving in Australia, she is passionate about researching and telling people’s stories to help others make better decisions about their own finances.

1012 articles written by Laine Gordon

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Home Loans

Consumer cartel could force $100k loan savings

Banks are earning more profit on mortgages – 0.88 percent after tax – than at any time since 2004, according to a new report from global investment bank UBS.

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Savings Accounts

Ten ways to save on grocery shopping

10 great ideas for reducing the cost of feeding the family and outsmarting supermarket marketing traps.

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Home Loans

Big new incentives to help home buyers

Developers are offering up lavish gifts and money-can’t-buy experiences to prospective homebuyers in an effort to kick start a sluggish home building market.

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Credit Cards

Five ways to clear debt fast

The percentage of Aussies planning to take on debt in the next couple of months is at three-year lows, according to a Dun & Bradstreet Survey.

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Home Loans

Investors are property's big winners

Property investors are hundreds of dollars per month better off now than they were two years ago, with falling interest rates and rising rents providing a healthy income boost, research shows.

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Home Loans

The biggest mistakes women make with money

Ever indulged in a little more retail therapy than you meant to? Ever bailed out an ex? Or woken up one day and realised you didn’t know as much as you thought you did about your money?

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Home Loans

Top 5 mistakes property investors make

Less volatile than the stock market and more rewarding than buying bonds, property has proved a relatively secure investment strategy over recent decades in Australia.

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Credit Cards

How to protect against financial scams

We're among the world's keenest online shoppers, but Australians are still losing millions of dollars every year to dodgy online sellers and scammers.

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Savings Accounts

Rules for a Valentine's Day proposal

Are you hoping for a Valentine's Day proposal - or planning one?

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Home Loans

How to retire in your 30s and live the good life

Forget working in to your mid-60s, a thrifty group of 30-somethings are retiring, and living the good life, to the envy of their peers.