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The Red Bank comes back for more, making sure it has two market leading fixed rate terms. It also cuts term deposit rates. The Co-operative Bank cuts both as well

Personal Finance / analysis
The Red Bank comes back for more, making sure it has two market leading fixed rate terms. It also cuts term deposit rates. The Co-operative Bank cuts both as well
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Not to be outdone, Westpac has done some more trimming to its fixed home loan rates.

These reductions now leave Westpac with a 4.45% two year rate and a 4.75% three year rate, both lower than any of their main rivals. That means it is going into the long holiday weekend with headline rates that stand out.

Westpac also cut between -5 bps and -30 bps from its term deposit offers, depending on the term, standing out here too but probably not to savers' liking.

The Co-operative Bank has also trimmed some home loan and term deposit rates today.

This is where these fixed rates have now landed after the Kiwibank cuts earlier in the day.

In an unusual situation, it is now the challenger banks who offer some lower rates. Usually these institutions struggle to have a rate advantage.

The last time fixed rates were as low as they are now was in mid-April 2022. That was when they were moving up from earlier when rates started in the 3% range.

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 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 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.

 Fixed, below 80% LVR 6 mths   1 yr   18 mth  2 yrs   3 yrs  4 yrs  5 yrs 
as at October 23, 2025 % % % % % % %
               
ANZ 4.79 4.49 4.49 4.49 4.79 5.39 5.39
ASB  4.85 4.49 4.45 4.49 4.79 5.09 5.15
4.79
-0.10
4.49 4.45
-0.04
4.49
-0.16
4.79
-0.06
4.99
-0.10
4.99
-0.40
reader-reported rate offers 4.75 4.49 4.43 4.47 4.75 4.99 4.99
Kiwibank 4.75
-0.10
4.49   4.49
-0.20
4.85
-0.14
5.19
-0.20
5.59
-0.20
Westpac 4.89
-0.10
4.49 4.45
-0.04
4.45
-0.04
4.75
-0.10
4.99 4.99
               
Bank of China  4.68 4.28 4.38 4.58 4.78 4.95 4.95
China Construction Bank 4.85 4.49 4.49 4.65 4.85 4.99 4.99
Co-operative Bank (*=FHB only) 4.79
-0.06
4.35*
-0.04
4.49
 
4.49
-0.20
4.94
-0.15
4.99 5.19
-0.20
ICBC  4.69 4.25 4.29 4.59 4.79 4.99 4.99
   (*=FHB only)SBS Bank 4.99 3.99* 4.49 4.65 4.85 4.99 4.99
  4.99 4.49 4.75 4.49 4.89 5.19 5.39

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