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Can Grok help me get a mortgage?

What it can work out, what it can’t, and how to connect arthr’s calculators to it.

Partly. Grok can do the work that comes before a mortgage — what you could borrow, what a lower rate would save, how much equity you can actually use, what your lender’s discharge process is. It can’t apply for the loan. In Australia a lender assesses the credit and a licensed broker submits it.

Connecting it

A settings screen

Cost

Free, no account

Runs

Hosted by the vendor

Last checked

19 August 2026

What Grok is

Grok is xAI's assistant, which since May 2026 has let you add your own MCP server alongside its built-in connectors. That matters here because it means you don’t have to wait for anyone to build a mortgage feature into it. You add the mortgage tools yourself, and arthr publishes a set.

What it can work out once it’s connected

A general-purpose model knows a lot about mortgages and very little about Australian ones. It doesn’t know lenders test your repayments about three percentage points above the rate you’d actually pay, and it rarely gets stamp duty right, because there are eight state scales and they move at budget time. Connected to arthr, it stops guessing at seven things:

  • What you could borrow — household income after Australian tax, less living costs and existing repayments, tested at the buffered rate lenders assess against.
  • What a loan costs a month — repayment, total repaid and total interest.
  • What a lower rate saves — monthly and over the remaining term.
  • Whether refinancing is worth it — how many months it takes to recover the switching costs, which is the number that actually decides it.
  • How much equity you can use— not value minus balance, which is the number you can’t borrow, but the 80% figure lenders release to.
  • Stamp duty — all eight states and territories, with the main first-home and owner-occupier concessions.
  • Your lender’s discharge process — the form, where it goes, how long they say it takes, and the fee where they publish one. Taken from the lenders’ own pages, not from memory.

How to connect it

  1. Go to grok.com/connectors.
  2. Click New Connector, then choose Custom.
  3. Paste the arthr server URL below. There’s nothing to authorise — leave the auth fields alone.
  4. Ask it something. “How much equity can I actually use on a $900,000 house with $600,000 owing?” is a good first test.
Server URL
https://www.arthr.com.au/api/mcp

There’s no API key and nothing to authorise. If the steps don’t match what you see, Grok has moved them — check xAI's connectors documentation, which is where these came from. The arthr server page has the same URL and a longer explanation of what MCP is.

What it won’t do

Apply for anything

A home loan is credit. A lender assesses it against their own rules and a licensed broker submits it. No agent can stand in for either, and one that says it can is wrong.

Tell you your rate

The tools take a rate as an input and work from it. What you’d actually be offered depends on your income, the property and the lender, and no calculator settles it.

See your bank

The tools take numbers you give them. They don’t connect to your accounts, and they don’t know your balance unless you say it.

Be right by itself

We can hand Grok the right numbers. We can’t control how it summarises them. Every answer links back to the calculator it came from — if a figure matters, check it there.

Your details

The tools take numbers, do the sum and send the answer back. No name, no email, no account, and we don’t store what you asked. We count how often each tool gets used so we know whether to keep running it. Grok is hosted by xAI, so their privacy terms cover the conversation itself.

Questions

Can Grok get me a mortgage?

No, and nothing can. A mortgage is credit, so an Australian lender has to assess it and a licensed broker has to submit it. What Grok can do is the work in front of that: run the numbers on what you could borrow, what a refinance would save, and what your current lender's discharge process is, using arthr's calculators rather than guessing.

Can Grok refinance my home loan?

It can tell you whether it's worth doing. Connected to arthr, Grok can compare your current rate against a better one, work out how many months it takes to recover the switching costs, and look up the discharge form your lender wants. The switch itself needs a broker and a lender — that part is regulated and stays that way.

Is it free, and does arthr see my details?

Free, with no account and nothing to authorise. The tools take numbers, do the sum and send the answer back — no name, no email, nothing stored about what you asked. We count how often each tool is used so we know whether to keep running it.

What can Grok not work out?

What rate you'd actually be offered. That depends on your income, the property, the lender and the day, and no calculator settles it. arthr's tools return indicative estimates and say so. For a real number a broker takes your situation to the lenders.

Connection steps checked against xAI's connectors documentation on 19 August 2026. These products change often — if something doesn’t match, their docs are right and this page is stale.

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