Mortgage Rates Daily Commentary
Monday 22 June 2026
More mortgage advisers embarce KiwiSaver
KiwiSaver is the flavour d'jour at the moment (and probably will be all the way into the election). Yesterday National announced that, if re-elected, it would make KiwiSaver compulsory.
Meanwhile, trail commission is disappearing with Westpac and AIA disappearing from mortgage advisers' toolkit.
As we report today, mortgage advisers are now looking to KiwiSaver as a replacement income stream. [MORE DETAILS HERE]
Reserve Bank lets well alone
Yes, there's been no change to the Official Cash Rate at this morning's review.
Wednesday, July 5th 2000, 12:00AM
by Paul McBeth
Yes, there’s been no change to the Official Cash Rate today.
The Reserve Bank announced at 9am this morning that the OCR would remain at 6.5 per cent. It gave no further explanation but said that the next review would be on August 16, together with the release of its August Monetary Policy Statement.