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Why you're probably paying more interest on your mortgage than you think

  • Written by: Sander De Groote, Lecturer, School of Accounting, Auditing and Taxation, UNSW Sydney
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For most things we buy, the price we are quoted is the price we pay.

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But our investigations,...

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