About Us

Founded by Tanya du Preez, a qualified Chartered Accountant with more than 20 years experience, the Affinitas Finance team bring a wealth of knowledge and expertise to their clients.
Our Story

We help make property dreams come true

Affinitas Finance is a mortgage broking practice based in Brisbane, serving clients countrywide. We help our clients achieve the best possible financial outcomes by providing hands-on support throughout the application process to secure your finance. We’re here to support you through to settlement and beyond.

Smart

We know the industry: we’ll use our extensive expertise and experience to help make your money work for you.

Strategic

Start with a strategy: tailored to your needs, we ensure your finance is structured to achieve your goals.

Simple

Keep it simple: we make securing your finance as easy and convenient as possible for you.
Our Founder, Tanya du Preez

I love what I do. I help make dreams come true for my clients, whether it’s making owning their first home a reality, or helping them to improve their lifestyle through structuring their finance to help them get ahead. I love being part to their journey.

Tanya loves being able to make a difference in her clients’ lives, whether it is making their dreams of owing their first home a reality, helping them acquire an investment property or helping them improve their lifestyles by structuring their finance to help them get ahead. She loves being part of their journey. 

Strategic by nature, Tanya is focused on the big picture, helping clients use debt sensibly to achieve their goals. She believes a poorly executed strategy can be more dangerous than no strategy at all, so attention is paid at each step in the process.

From clients and their advisors, to lenders and other parties to transactions including real estate agents and solicitors, Tanya builds great working relationships quickly by delivering on promises and keeping the lines of communication open.

As a qualified Chartered Accountant with more than 20 years’ experience and knowledge of tax and finance, Tanya brings a unique blend of skills to the table. She is able to provide clients with insights and expertise across many disciplines helping unlock opportunities to achieve their goals.

Tanya, and her team’s focus is, and always will be, on the best possible outcomes for our clients as we work together for the long term.

A point of pride for Affinitas is that our clients come back to us as their lifestyles and goals change. Tanya is now seeing the next generation of clients come to us, as the children of our clients reach out to Affinitas Finance for help buying their first homes and beginning their investment journeys.

When she’s not at work, Tanya loves travel, reading and spending time with family and friends. Her happy place is wherever her favourite people are, especially if there is an espresso martini at hand.

Recent awards and recognition

Our Team

Meet our amazing team

Dean Zjalic

Client Service Manager
Dean supports our fantastic team of mortgage brokers, keeps application moving smoothly and helps our clients to get the most out of their home loan!

From submitting applications to following through to settlement, Dean stays in touch with lenders, valuers, solicitors and yourselves making sure that promises are kept and your home settles on time! Dean has 8 years experience in client service and is passionate about making sure that we deliver great service to every client.

Dean is an avid cook and enjoys spending down time entertaining friends and family.

Nicole Ndlovu B Com Accounting

Client Service Manager & Broker Analyst
Nicole has seven year’s experience in banking and lending and has an eagle eye for both policy and detail. She is a master of the art of follow up, supporting our brokers by gathering information and preparing research to help us provide value to you in every meeting. Once the strategy is defined, Nicole works with our brokers to prepare high quality applications that help us get results for you.

Nicole manages our rate review program, helping combat rate creep and savings our clients thousands of dollars each year. Make sure to respond to her review invitations so you don’t miss out!

There isn’t an occasion Nic doesn’t have the perfect song for on instant recall with perfect comedic timing. She also loves a great series, no surprise with her wicked sense of humour that “Wednesday” is in her top 3!

Deon Calitz Diploma in Finance and Mortgage Broking, PBF GFI

Mortgage Advisor
Deon is a qualified Mortgage Advisor specialising in finance for home owners and property investors. He particularly loves working with first home buyers. Deon has a number of years lending experience. He has previously worked in business banking roles in South Africa looking after small business owners and also qualified as a financial planner where he saw property as the cornerstone of wealth creation for so many families.

Outside of work you can find Deon spending quality time with his family as they enjoy spending their free time camping in their camper and exploring our beautiful country. He also enjoys mountain biking on the weekends so you might catch him on the local trails on the Northside of Brisbane.

Being a part
of your story

Partnering with Affinitas Finance is about more than just securing personal or business finance: it’s about securing your financial future and working together to achieve your goals. 

We are a client-centric business. Every action we take is founded on what is in the best interests of our clients. Recognising that each client has their own story and unique needs makes us effective at providing a solution that best suits you.

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