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Monday, January 12th 2026
Economist Tony Alexander says based on the Australian rate looking like it will be raised from 3.6% before the middle of this year, the New Zealand OCR will comfortably rise before the end of the year.
Thursday, January 08th 2026
Early adopter advisers and lenders are now using regulated open banking connections to make it easier for people to apply for a home loan.
Wednesday, January 07th 2026
First home buyers are not being deterred by Queenstown’s soaring house prices.
Tuesday, January 06th 2026
Investor mortgage borrowing is edging closer to where debt-to-income (DTI) restrictions start to kick in.
Tuesday, December 23rd 2025
About half of all first home buyer lending has been done at a less than 20% deposit in recent months.
Thursday, December 18th 2025
Mortgage advisers have been given more bad news over trail commissions just before Christmas.
Thursday, December 18th 2025
Advisers are being warned about cyber criminals ramping up activity over the holidays.
Wednesday, December 17th 2025
Financial advice AI platform Afterburner has expanded to cover about 60 percent of the mortgage advice market, through new enterprise-level partnerships with Link Financial Group, NZFSG and Loan Market.
Monday, December 15th 2025
Lower interest rates are doing their job. The medicine is working, Kiwibank says.
Wednesday, December 10th 2025
[OPINION] The one thing that newly installed Reserve Bank governor Anna Breman has demonstrated is that she isn’t shy of being in the public eye and she is stressing the need for the central bank to exercise transparency and accountability.
Wednesday, December 10th 2025
Westpac is urging the RBNZ to make some public comment on evolving financial conditions.
Monday, December 08th 2025
New Zealand’s economy is putting recession in its rear-view mirror, with the recovery expected to pick up next year, ASB’s latest Quarterly Economic Forecast says.
Friday, December 05th 2025
Fixed mortgage interest rates could start rising before Christmas because the economy’s direction is now up, economist Tony Alexander says.
Thursday, December 04th 2025
Stable house prices, low interest rates and plenty of houses to choose from are still not enticing buyers.
Tuesday, December 02nd 2025
US president Donald Trump recently raised the idea of 50 year mortgages; but New Zealand advisers say such long loans won’t take off in New Zealand.
Tuesday, December 02nd 2025
The fall in borrowing costs is only half-way through for households, even though the RBNZ appears to have made its last cut to the OCR.
Monday, December 01st 2025
Loan Market lays out its plans to become the best known mortgage advice firm in New Zealand.
Monday, December 01st 2025
Questions are being asked about whether banks offering 1.5% cash backs will be able to process the volume of applications in time.
Wednesday, November 26th 2025
The Reserve Bank has probably finished cutting its official cash rate (OCR) after today’s 25 basis point cut to 2.25%, but it could be starting to hike again late next year, according to its latest monetary policy statement.
Wednesday, November 26th 2025
In its final cash rate decision of the year the Reserve Bank has decided to cut the OCR 25 points to 2.25%. Here's what it said.
Wednesday, November 26th 2025
About one in five Auckland residential properties (19.3%) sold for less than their original purchase price in the third quarter, up from up from 15.9% in the second quarter.
| Unity First Home Buyer special | 3.99 |
| SBS FirstHome Combo | 3.99 |
| ICBC | 4.25 |
| Co-operative Bank - First Home Special | 4.35 |
| Co-operative Bank - Owner Occ | 4.45 |
| TSB Special | 4.49 |
| ANZ Special | 4.49 |
| ASB Bank | 4.49 |
| SBS Bank Special | 4.49 |
| Unity Special | 4.49 |
| Westpac Special | 4.49 |
| TSB Special | 4.00 |
| Kiwibank Special | 4.49 |
| Kainga Ora | 4.49 |
| Nelson Building Society | 4.59 |
| ICBC | 4.59 |
| Unity Special | 4.65 |
| SBS Bank Special | 4.69 |
| ANZ Special | 4.69 |
| BNZ - Std | 4.69 |
| Westpac Special | 4.75 |
| ASB Bank | 4.75 |
| ICBC | 4.99 |
| Kainga Ora | 5.15 |
| SBS Bank Special | 5.29 |
| Westpac Special | 5.29 |
| BNZ - Std | 5.29 |
| Kiwibank Special | 5.39 |
| TSB Special | 5.39 |
| ASB Bank | 5.45 |
| AIA - Go Home Loans | 5.45 |
| Co-operative Bank - Owner Occ | 5.49 |
| BNZ - Classic | 5.59 |
| SBS FirstHome Combo | 3.29 |
| AIA - Back My Build | 3.34 |
| SBS Construction lending for FHB | 3.74 |
| CFML 321 Loans | 3.95 |
| Co-operative Bank - Owner Occ | 4.99 |
| Co-operative Bank - Standard | 4.99 |
| Heartland Bank - Online | 5.30 |
| ICBC | 5.39 |
| Kiwibank - Offset | 5.65 |
| Kiwibank | 5.65 |
| ANZ | 5.69 |
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