Mina Martin

Mina Martin

Australian Broker

Mina Martin

Journalist

18+ years experience41,526 Total views on Australian Broker in 2025

Mina's specialty topics

Mortgage rates and lender rate movements Property market data and valuation trends Housing policy and regulatory reform

Mina Martin is a journalist at Key Media, where she has been covering the financial services industry since 2016. She now focuses on the mortgage and lending sector across Australian Broker and New Zealand Adviser — reporting on non-bank lending, reverse mortgages, property market trends, securitisation, and the evolving role of technology in broking. Earlier in her Key Media career, she reported for Insurance Business Australia and New Zealand and served as a global profiles writer.

Before joining Key Media, Mina worked as a development editor at a leading educational publisher, authoring published social studies textbooks and magazine features. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Communication, majoring in Journalism with a minor in Speech Communication, and a Master of Education majoring in English — a dual foundation that sharpens her investigative rigour and ability to translate complex financial subject matter into clear, authoritative prose.

Outside the newsroom, she is an avid reader of non-fiction and a devoted fan of dramas and variety shows — a curiosity for real stories and human behaviour that informs the depth and accessibility she brings to every piece she writes.

How I think about writing for this industry…

“The best stories in this space rarely come from a single report — they come from connecting the dots between what the data shows, what the experts are saying, and what it actually means for a broker's next conversation with a client.”

Featured content from Mina

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Previous experience

  • Key Media
  • Bookman Publishing — Editor-in-chief
  • Vibal Group of Companies — Development editor

Education

  • M.A. Education Major in English, De La Salle Araneta University
  • B.A. Communication Major in Journalism Minor in Speech Communication, University of the Philippines - Baguio

Read the latest stories by Mina

Spending stalls and confidence slips as RBA rate rise looms

Spending stalls and confidence slips as RBA rate rise looms

Fuel costs propped up August spending as confidence in household finances weakens

Fixed rate U-turn: 13 lenders lift 312 rates before RBA call

Fixed rate U-turn: 13 lenders lift 312 rates before RBA call

Canstar's Sally Tindall urges struggling borrowers to seek a rate cut first

Borrowers adjusting, not distressed, as interest-only lending rises

Borrowers adjusting, not distressed, as interest-only lending rises

Serviceability exceptions also climb, but arrears remain contained, says Ray White

First Federal goes live on ApplyOnline with eSign and NextGenID

First Federal goes live on ApplyOnline with eSign and NextGenID

Non-bank lender's move builds on its recently launched Broker Portal

NSW offers councils up to $73m for faster development assessments

NSW offers councils up to $73m for faster development assessments

Property Council says planner training and infrastructure are key to housing delivery

Prefab home finance gets new standard contract backed by CommBank

Prefab home finance gets new standard contract backed by CommBank

Offsite progress payments ease a long-standing hurdle for factory-built housing

Westpac now tips 7.3% peak-to-trough fall in house prices

Westpac now tips 7.3% peak-to-trough fall in house prices

Bank sees stabilisation as a 2027 story, with Sydney hardest hit

Auction clearance rates slip to 10-week low as rate rise looms

Auction clearance rates slip to 10-week low as rate rise looms

Melbourne records its weakest preliminary result since September 2021

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