State-owned Kiwibank is the last major to move its fixed home loan rates down ahead of Wednesday's OCR review, and these shifts give it a market-leading six month rate, and a matching one year rate

Kiwibank has kicked off the week with its version of last week's fixed rate reductions to home loan rates.

Update: The original version of this story misstated the Kiwibank six month rate. Their new rate is 4.85% (and not 4.95% in the original version) and at the 4.85% level it is market-leading for that fixed term. Second update: ICBC has changed too and shifted some market leading points. See table. Further update: BNZ has moved the rest of its fixed rates into line.

Ahead of Wednesday's OCR review, these cuts from the state-owned bank are modest, basically just matching some of the big Aussie bank moves.

But one of them is market-leading - 4.85% for six months.

And their 4.49% one year rate matches the current market lows set last week.

But Kiwibank has not yet announced matching term deposit rates cuts, and on that front it offers savers some small premium over their big-Aussie rivals.

Now that all big five banks have moved we are left with a situation where

- Kiwibank ANZ has the lowest six month carded rate at 4.85%, in fact market-leading.

- Almost all banks, including Kiwibank now, have adopted 4.49% as their one year fixed rate

- ASB and Westpac have the lowest, and market-leading eighteen month rate at 4.49%

- TSB has the lowest two year rate at 4.49%

- Westpac has the lowest three year rate at 4.85%

- and Westpac also has the lowest four and five year rates at 4.99%. In fact, Westpac is the only bank with no offer over 5%.

But it could all change after Wednesday's OCR review.

To compare mortgage rate offers in a way that includes the application and account fees costs (or break fee costs if you need to do that), and applying the impact of a cashback/legal fee reimbursement/ or other incentive, you can now use our new home loan comparison calculator. You can find it here. Or, for convenience, we have added it to the bottom of this article.

We sense that the ability to achieve meaningful discounts from carded rates is now much harder, so the impact of the incentives offered are currently playing an outsized role. Reader-reported mortgage rates are welcome, so please record them if you have them. We need you to record them in the comment section below, which helps us stay on top of this aspect of the home loan rates market.

And still negotiate. How flexible banks may be will depend on the strength of your financials.

One useful way to make sense of the changed home loan rates is to use our full-function mortgage calculator which is below.

And if you already have a fixed term mortgage that is not up for renewal at this time, our break fee calculator may help you assess your options. Break fees will be minimal in a rising market. But they become important in a falling market, like now.

Here is the snapshot of the lowest advertised fixed-term mortgage rates on offer from the key retail banks at the moment. (Updated with new ICBC rates, which shifts some market-leading points. Update II: BNZ has now also matched its main rivals on other rates.)

Fixed, below 80% LVR	6 mths	1 yr	18 mth	2 yrs	3 yrs	4 yrs	5 yrs
as at October 6, 2025	%	%	%	%	%	%	%
ANZ	4.89	4.49	4.59	4.65	4.89	5.49	5.49
	4.95	4.49	4.49	4.65	4.94	5.19	5.39
	4.89 -0.10	4.49	4.49 -0.26	4.65 -0.10	4.85 -0.10	5.09	5.39
	4.85 -0.20	4.49 -0.26		4.69 -0.10	4.99 -0.06	5.39	5.59
	4.99	4.49	4.49	4.65	4.85	4.99	4.99
Bank of China	4.98	4.68	4.68	4.78	4.88	5.35	5.35
China Construction Bank	4.99	4.75	4.75	4.75	4.95	5.99	5.99
Co-operative Bank (*=FHB only)	4.99	4.39*	4.75	4.75	4.99	5.39	5.49
ICBC	4.85 -0.24	4.45 -0.10	4.55 -0.24	4.59 -0.30	4.89 -0.10	5.35	5.39
(*=FHB only)	5.09	4.29*	4.75	4.75	4.99	5.39	5.39
	4.99 -0.10	4.49 -0.26	4.75 -0.24	4.49	4.89 -0.10	5.19 -0.10	5.39 -0.10