Our Services

Strategic lending. Built around your life.

We don't just find you a loan. We design a financial structure that reduces debt faster, builds wealth deliberately, and connects every lending decision to a bigger plan.

600+
Clients across
Australia
20+
Years of strategic
advisory
$2BN+
Total lending
settled
What We Do
Five services. One strategic partner.

Charter Finance works with professionals, business owners, and families who want their money working harder, not just their mortgage settled. Every service we offer connects to a single objective: structuring your finances so wealth builds faster and decisions carry further.

Strategic Lending
Home loans and debt structures built around your goals

We go beyond finding the lowest rate. We structure your lending (loan type, term, split, offset, and repayment order) so your debt actively accelerates wealth creation rather than sitting still for 30 years. Residential, investment, refinance, or complex structures involving multiple properties, trusts, or business income.

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Property & Investment
Cashflow modelling and investment structuring

Property investment is more than finding a good suburb. We model the cashflow, tax position, and equity trajectory of investment scenarios before you commit, so every property decision connects to your long-term wealth plan. Negative gearing strategy, portfolio structure, and buyers agent coordination when needed.

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Workplace Financial Wellness
A structured program for employers that measurably improves team financial health

Financial stress costs Australian businesses an estimated $30.9 billion in lost productivity each year (AMP Financial Wellness Report 2024). The Financial Wholeness Journey for Employers is a diagnostic-led program built around verified financial data, not surveys or webinars. Participants baseline their financial health, receive structured education from a qualified adviser, and measure real improvement over six months. You receive an anonymised Organisation Health Score. Individual employee data is never shared with the employer.

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Calculators & Tools
Purpose-built financial tools, led by our proprietary Debt Strategy Calculator

Our calculator suite goes beyond standard mortgage tools. The Debt Strategy Calculator is our proprietary tool for clearing non-deductible debt years faster, by modelling how cashflow, offset, and repayment structure work together rather than looking at the rate alone. Alongside it, tools to map the assets you need to retire on your terms and to model what a rate movement means for your repayments. Charter Finance clients access pre-populated versions inside the portal, with their real numbers already loaded.

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How We Work

More than a transaction. A structured financial partnership.

Most brokers disappear after settlement. We stay. Charter Finance operates as a long-term financial partner. We check in when rates move, reviewing your structure annually, and connecting every new decision back to the plan we built together.

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01

Discovery: Your complete picture

We start with a deep-dive conversation: income structure, existing debts, goals, risk appetite, and timeline. Not a quick pre-approval form. A proper financial review.

02

Strategy: A plan, not just a product

We model your position across multiple scenarios and recommend a debt structure that reduces non-deductible debt fastest while protecting serviceability and building equity.

03

Execution: We handle the complexity

Application, lender negotiation, documentation, and settlement. You stay focused on your life. We stay focused on getting the best outcome across every moving part.

04

Progress: We stay with you

Your Financial Wholeness Portal tracks your position in real time. We review annually, proactively flag rate opportunities, and adjust your strategy as life changes.

Who We Work With
The borrowers we specialise in.

Most of our clients sit somewhere a high-street bank finds difficult: income that does not fit a simple payslip, a balance sheet built across entities, or a career stage where the structure matters more than the rate. These are the borrower types Charter Finance is built around. Each one has its own approach, set out in full on its own page.

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Book a conversation with Charter Finance. No paperwork, no forms, just a direct discussion about where you are, where you want to be, and what needs to change.

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Common questions

The following is general information only. For advice specific to your circumstances, speak with a Charter Finance adviser.

The first conversation is a discovery session, not an application, and no documents are required. Charter Finance's goal is to understand your complete financial picture: income structure, existing debt, asset position, goals, and any constraints such as timeline, entity structure, or income complexity. From that conversation, Charter Finance identifies whether there is a structural opportunity, whether your loans are optimised, whether your cashflow is being used efficiently, and whether your next move aligns with your broader wealth trajectory. You leave with a clear sense of whether Charter Finance can add meaningful value and what the pathway looks like. If Charter Finance cannot add value, we say so.
A standard owner-occupied purchase loan typically takes four to six weeks from formal application submission to settlement, assuming clean documentation. Investment loans with complex income structures can take six to ten weeks. The timeline depends on three variables: how quickly you provide complete documentation, how quickly the lender processes the application (which varies significantly by lender and time of year), and how quickly the property valuation is completed. Charter Finance manages the entire application timeline, including lender follow-up, valuation coordination, and legal liaison. Delays almost always come from incomplete documentation or missed lender follow-up. Charter Finance eliminates both.
At minimum, annually. The mortgage market moves consistently. Competitive rates shift, and banks routinely offer new customers better deals than existing ones. A rate review with your existing lender takes one phone call and costs nothing. If the gap between your current rate and the market rate is more than 0.4%, a full refinance comparison is warranted. If it is less, a negotiation with the existing lender is typically the right move first. Beyond rate, Charter Finance's annual review covers: loan structure (is the offset being used efficiently?), loan purpose (has anything changed that affects tax deductibility?), equity position (is there usable equity to act on?), and portfolio stress (can you still service comfortably if rates rise?).
A bank can only offer its own products. Charter Finance works across a panel of lenders and can model the true cost of your current loan against alternatives, factoring in break costs, application fees, rate differential, offset functionality, and structural impact on your overall portfolio. More importantly, Charter Finance assesses whether the right answer is a full refinance or a rate negotiation with your existing lender, because switching lenders has friction costs that sometimes make staying and negotiating the better outcome. Charter Finance also uses refinance events to restructure: to split loans correctly, fix mixed-purpose accounts, or release equity, rather than simply moving the same structure to a cheaper rate.
A pre-approval is a conditional assessment. The lender has reviewed your income, debts, and living expenses and confirmed they would likely lend up to a stated amount, subject to a suitable property valuation and no change in circumstances. It typically lasts 90 days. A formal approval is issued once the specific property has been valued and the lender is satisfied with all conditions. Pre-approvals vary enormously in quality. Some are genuine credit assessments; others are marketing tools offering little real certainty. Charter Finance submits pre-approvals that are as close to formal approvals as possible, with fully assessed income and verified expenses, so that the pre-approval represents genuine negotiating confidence.