Mina Martin

Mina Martin

Mortgage Professional Australia

Mina Martin

Journalist

18+ years experience

Mina's specialty topics

Non-bank lending and reverse mortgages Property market trends and securitisation AI risk in financial services Superannuation and regulatory policy

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 Mortgage Professional Australia 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.

How I think about writing for this industry…

“The best mortgage stories rarely come from a single headline, they come from connecting a regulator's policy shift, an AI risk report, and what it actually means for a broker's next client conversation. That's the thread I try to follow in every piece.”

Also published by

Australian Broker · NZ Adviser · Insurance Business

Featured content from Mina

Many financial services firms 'ill-equipped' for AI risk, report finds Housing Australia names new chair amid $47bn housing agenda David Bradbury joins APRA as super gets a new deputy chair

Previous experience

  • Insurance Business Australia and New Zealand — Reporter
  • Bookman Publishing — Editor-in-Chief
  • Vibal Group of Companies — Development Editor

Education

  • Master of Education, Major in English, De La Salle Araneta University
  • Bachelor of Arts in Communication, Major in Journalism, Minor in Speech Communication, University of the Philippines - Baguio

Read the latest stories by Mina

Property listings rise in Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth as prices ease

Selling times stretch by up to two weeks since early 2026

Property listings rise in Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth as prices ease

Westpac cuts house price forecast, tips 7.3% peak-to-trough fall

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

Westpac cuts house price forecast, tips 7.3% peak-to-trough fall

The new prefab home contract breaking barriers to factory-built housing

CommBank now allows progress payments on eligible modular homes built offsite

The new prefab home contract breaking barriers to factory-built housing

Australian homebuyers name 4.9% as their magic mortgage rate

Three in four willing to cut lifestyle spending to afford a home

Australian homebuyers name 4.9% as their magic mortgage rate

Mortgage demand down 14.1% as contraction hits fifth month

Refinancing with existing lenders falls 22.8% as switching dips just 1.1%

Mortgage demand down 14.1% as contraction hits fifth month

NSW property confidence falls again as tax concerns grow

Property businesses grow warier on feasibility as forward work expectations fall

NSW property confidence falls again as tax concerns grow

Perth's 'witch house' street tops Australia's most-viewed list

New data shows which streets Australians can't stop looking up

Perth's 'witch house' street tops Australia's most-viewed list

Energy-efficient homes worth 1.3% more per star, new report finds

Solar panels are linked to prices around 2.7% higher

Energy-efficient homes worth 1.3% more per star, new report finds

Majority of Australians back super-for-mortgages idea, survery shows

All four proposals cleared majority support, though none is formal policy

Majority of Australians back super-for-mortgages idea, survery shows

Macquarie lifts fixed rates for a second time in September

Majors tip a cash rate hike next Tuesday

Macquarie lifts fixed rates for a second time in September