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Offset Account or Redraw Facility: Understanding the Difference
Offset accounts and redraw facilities can both reduce home-loan interest, yet access, tax treatment and product rules make them meaningfully different.
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Offset accounts and redraw facilities can both reduce home-loan interest, yet access, tax treatment and product rules make them meaningfully different.
An overdraft can smooth short-term cash flow, but interest, facility fees, limits and repayment discipline determine its real cost to a business.
The cash rate matters to mortgages, but deposits, wholesale funding, competition and risk also influence how Australian banks price home loans.