persianharry

Don't be put off by previous poster, I've been in the same situation so can speak from experience. It doesn't matter where your employer is based, it could be Adelaide, somewhere else in Australia (think national corporations like banks), New Zealand or anywhere in the world (think global businesses like Apple). The one thing you will need when applying for 887 is a letter from your employer stating that they sanction you working in South Australia, preferably giving your home address as your place of work, and also stating your hours of work and salary. If you can get that then you shouldn't have a problem.

Hi Barry My wife and I moved here about 18 months ago so relative newbies. We live near Brighton/Seacliff and we are always happy to meet for coffee. PM me if you're interested. Jason.

Hi, I can't comment on applying for the 887 (as we haven't reached that point ourselves), but I can tell you that the surveys are not a problem at all. You are just asked a few simple questions such as "Are you in employment?", "Are you living in SA?", nothing about your partner at all. Don't worry about that side of things.

I have sent you PM about mortgage brokers.

Hi masha we got the 6 month certificate. It didn't cause any problems and I would recommend it rather than for a specific property just in case something went wrong with the purchase or the property you were interested in was being sold at auction.

This has been taken.

We were kindly given this table and chairs to use while we were waiting for our container to arrive from the UK. We don't need it any more so if it would help anyone out you are welcome to it free of charge. It is a wooden, oblong, 6 seater table. There are six chairs but two of them are quite worn, we just put cushion seat pads on the cover them. Collection is from Seacombe Heights.

Hi Are you still selling this/these, and if so how much are you asking? PM me if you prefer.

Hi We are in Adelaide on a 489 visa and have just bought a property after renting for nearly a year. You will need to get FIRB approval which costs $5000, but is just a formality. The approval allows you to purchase a single property for you live in. You can't rent out the property or any part of it and you can only have one approval license i.e. you can only buy one property while on the 489 visa. The only exception is if you buy a new build property and then you don't need the approval. The other thing we found is that some banks won't touch the 489 visa e.g. Commonwealth Bank. Some others will want a large deposit, but if you shop around there are a few organisations that will lend up to 80%. Of course as a 'foreign investor' you will not be entitled to any of the first time buyer incentives. I hope that helps.

Thanks Steve, got the pm and replied. Katie sounds just what we are looking for.

Thanks Snifter, that sounds good, could you give me the details?

Andrew replied to my pm today with "Unfortunately we have no Broker from the end of this week (I deal solely with UK Pension Transfers/Financial Planning now) so will not be able to assist", that's all I know.

Can anyone recommend a good mortgage broker? It seems Vista Financial no longer have one so I don't know where else to turn. I don't mind where particularly as the recommendation is more important than location, but we live near Brighton/Hallet Cove so anywhere in that sort of area would be ideal. Thanks

We've been given our estimated date that our belongings will arrive in port I. Just wondered how long realistically it will be after that when we're reunited ie how long does customs clearance take?

Hi, I sent you a pm a couple of days ago about car?