Mortgages

25 Mar 19, 10:43am

It is a new week and now BNZ falls into line with a 3.99% two year fixed mortgage offer. That only leaves ANZ as a holdout among the majors. And now two year swap rates are falling too
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February house price rise pushes home ownership further out of reach

24 Mar 19, 6:02am

Greg Ninness

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Lower quartile house prices were surprisingly strong in February - making life more difficult for aspiring first home buyers
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Now Westpac offers 3.99%

21 Mar 19, 8:43pm

David Chaston

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Following HSBC, Kiwibank, ASB and TSB, Westpac comes back with a 3.99% two year fixed home loan offer. That's now six banks with a sub 4% mortgage offer
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ASB also offers 3.99%

19 Mar 19, 8:35am

David Chaston

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Following Kiwibank, ASB cuts its two year home loan rate to 3.99% and TSB also follows under its extended price-match policy
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Kiwibank reprises its 3.99% offer

18 Mar 19, 9:30am

David Chaston

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Two banks cut selected fixed mortgage rates for residential borrowers, one of which takes a rate back down under 4%
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'A simple and streamlined process for prefab buyers and builders'

14 Mar 19, 7:38am

admin

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Westpac claims a New Zealand first with a dedicated mortgage product for prefabricated homes
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Westpac ends its sub 4% mortgage special offer

13 Mar 19, 9:55am

David Chaston

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Stable wholesale swap rates and stable bank deposit rates are limiting how far fixed mortgage rates can move down. Westpac pushes a key fighting rate up
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Hold the front page: Big bank profits fall

5 Mar 19, 9:52am

Gareth Vaughan

New Zealand's big five banks deliver a strong quarter's financial performance, but some banks would have work to do to meet RBNZ's capital proposals
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HSBC launches a 3.69% 2-year fixed mortgage 'special', the lowest-ever home loan rate from a NZ bank

5 Mar 19, 8:24am

David Chaston

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Taking advantage of low wholesale rates, HSBC launches a very low two year home loan rate, withdraws other 'specials' but still has market-leading rate card
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Overexposed?

5 Mar 19, 8:00am

David Hargreaves

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David Hargreaves crunches some numbers on the growing proportion of first home buyers in an uncertain housing market
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Mortgage growth stays steady

28 Feb 19, 3:29pm

David Hargreaves

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Latest Reserve Bank monthly figures show mortgage credit growth remains above 6%, while agricultural and business credit are rising again but consumer credit is falling
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'Stalled'

28 Feb 19, 1:10pm

David Hargreaves

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ANZ's latest Business Outlook survey shows the recent improvement in levels of business confidence have stopped and a net 31% of survey respondents expect deteriorating conditions this year
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First home buyers still strong in the market

27 Feb 19, 3:47pm

David Hargreaves

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Latest Reserve Bank figures show first home buyers getting a record high share of new mortgage money for the second consecutive month
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Auckland now affordable for first home buyers

22 Feb 19, 5:00am

Greg Ninness

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Interest.co.nz Home Loan Affordability Report says the slide in both interest rates and lower quartile house prices means Auckland is now considered affordable for first home buyers
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Kiwibank 'understands and supports' RBNZ's capital philosophy

20 Feb 19, 9:48am

Gareth Vaughan

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Kiwibank half-year profit bounces back, CEO Steve Jurkovich highlights focus on improving cost-to-income ratio
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TSB to match the lowest 1-year mortgage offer from the Aussie owned banks

17 Feb 19, 12:02am

David Chaston

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TSB pledges to match any advertised one-year home loan lending rate from NZ's big four Australian owned banks
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'Effectively zero' house price inflation for NZ

13 Feb 19, 4:47pm

David Hargreaves

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RBNZ Governor Adrian Orr says central bank has 'historically low level' of house price inflation projected; says investor perceptions 'are being tested at the moment'
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RBNZ pushes out timeframe for interest rate moves

13 Feb 19, 2:08pm

David Hargreaves

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Reserve Bank leaves Official Cash Rate unchanged at 1.75%; No change to rates seen before 2021; Next move 'up or down'
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Sharp drop in expectations for house price rises

13 Feb 19, 8:50am

David Hargreaves

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Influential RBNZ Survey of expectations shows significant change in view of house prices this year - with the average pick now for gains of less than 2%
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More mortgage rate changes

11 Feb 19, 10:51am

David Chaston

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Both BNZ and Kiwibank change fixed mortgage rates for one and two years to open the bidding for the new week, hard on the heals of HSBC's market leading challenge
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