How long does it usually take for a loan to be approved?

Home loan approval can take a day or 2, or up to a week or so to complete depending on what type of loan application you’re applying for.

If you are diligent and get all the paperwork to your mortgage broker in a timely fashion than it can be submitted quickly and on the way to conditional or unconditional approval fairly fast. If you feed your mortgage broker documents in dribs and drabs it will take much longer for them to get everything together and packaged for submission.

After submission more complex applicants (i.e. Self-employed or SMSF) will take much longer than an applicant with simply PAYG employment, every situation is different and sometimes it is the lender asking for more information and out of your mortgage brokers hands on how long things take to get approved.