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Wednesday, September 17th 2025
While the Reserve Bank is expected to cut the OCR to 2.5% by the end of the year, the age-old question being faced by mortgage advisers from clients about whether to float of fix their mortgage interest rate is more common now than ever before.
Monday, September 15th 2025
Within the next six months AI will be playing a pivotal part in the processing of mortgage applications for Loan Market.
Friday, September 12th 2025
Westpac says there are signs that more marginal borrowers are being drawn into buying homes.
Thursday, September 11th 2025
Housing supply has overtaken population growth in the country’s biggest city Auckland and the capital keeping a lid on prices –another piece of good news for first home buyers.
Tuesday, September 09th 2025
Housing affordability is improving as house prices continue falling.
QV’s House Price Index dropped 0.8% in the three months to the end of August and house prices are now 13.4% lower than the peak market value in January 2022.
Monday, September 08th 2025
ANZ is coughing up $3.25 million to the Crown in lieu of a fine after admitting breaching fair dealing laws following an investigation by the FMA.
Monday, September 08th 2025
NZFSG says it is unclear whether customers are receiving superior financial advice, but the level of consumer trust has grown with greater transparency.
Friday, September 05th 2025
One-year fixed term mortgages are flavour of the month for new mortgage borrowers – a sign mortgage holders believe rates have further to fall.
Wednesday, September 03rd 2025
Fintechs are being placed at a disadvantage as the major banks “lock in their existing power” and delay open banking, the Commerce Commission says.
Tuesday, September 02nd 2025
Mortgage advisers have nothing to fear from the new home loan comparison calculator that the New Zealand Banking Association (NZBA) has just launched, according to leading adviser Bruce Patten of Loan Market.
Tuesday, September 02nd 2025
Non-performing housing loans plunged by $55 million in July just as new mortgage lending was 24.4% higher in the quarter than a year ago.
Monday, September 01st 2025
A couple of mortgage industry stalwarts are back in the market with an offering of deposit bonds for those who want to buy a residential property, but who for various reasons either can’t get finance from their banks or wish to avoid the obligations such access requires.
Monday, September 01st 2025
Only one of the major banks appears to have made changes to its clawback policy despite it being one of the 14 recommendations in last year’s Commerce Commission’s report into retail banking competition the Government is implementing.
Friday, August 29th 2025
Newpark, which was acquired by SHARE in a surprise move a number of years ago, has been sold again.
Friday, August 29th 2025
Housing affordability is at its best since 2019 and with ANZ predicting no growth in prices for the rest of the year it could improve further for first home buyers.
Thursday, August 28th 2025
A new high of $2.6 billion in mortgage money changed lenders last month.
Wednesday, August 27th 2025
Kiwibank continued to gain market share of mortgages in the June quarter, along with BNZ and ASB, while both ANZ and Westpac lost market share.
Wednesday, August 27th 2025
Recommendations in the recently released Finance & Expenditure Select Committee inquiry into banking competition are on the right track to encourage competition, Squirrel Mortgages says.
Tuesday, August 26th 2025
A new country manager for the Finance and Mortgage Advisers Association of New Zealand (FAMNZ) is expected to be appointed in the next fortnight.
Monday, August 25th 2025
First home buyers’ share of the housing market is hovering at its highest in 20 years – making them the dominant buying force all year.
Monday, August 25th 2025
Failure to give customers legally required information about their loans and, in some cases, agreed interest rate discounts had landed Westpac in hot water.
| Unity First Home Buyer special | 3.99 |
| SBS FirstHome Combo | 4.29 |
| Co-operative Bank - First Home Special | 4.69 |
| ICBC | 4.69 |
| ANZ Special | 4.75 |
| Kiwibank Special | 4.75 |
| ASB Bank | 4.75 |
| SBS Bank Special | 4.75 |
| TSB Special | 4.75 |
| Westpac Special | 4.75 |
| AIA - Go Home Loans | 4.75 |
| Wairarapa Building Society | 4.59 |
| ASB Bank | 4.75 |
| TSB Special | 4.75 |
| SBS Bank Special | 4.75 |
| ANZ Special | 4.75 |
| Westpac Special | 4.75 |
| AIA - Go Home Loans | 4.75 |
| Kainga Ora | 4.75 |
| Kiwibank Special | 4.79 |
| Nelson Building Society | 4.87 |
| BNZ - Std | 4.89 |
| SBS Bank Special | 5.39 |
| Westpac Special | 5.39 |
| ICBC | 5.39 |
| Co-operative Bank - Owner Occ | 5.49 |
| Kainga Ora | 5.49 |
| AIA - Go Home Loans | 5.49 |
| ASB Bank | 5.49 |
| TSB Special | 5.49 |
| BNZ - Classic | 5.59 |
| Kiwibank Special | 5.59 |
| BNZ - Std | 5.59 |
| SBS Construction lending for FHB | 3.74 |
| AIA - Back My Build | 4.44 |
| CFML 321 Loans | 4.75 |
| Co-operative Bank - Owner Occ | 5.70 |
| Co-operative Bank - Standard | 5.70 |
| Heartland Bank - Online | 5.75 |
| ICBC | 6.09 |
| Kiwibank - Offset | 6.15 |
| Kiwibank | 6.15 |
| ASB Bank | 6.29 |
| SBS Bank | 6.29 |
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