Mortgage Rates Daily Commentary
Thursday 4 December 2025
Good house buying conditions, but little activity; What's going on?
Experts consider it's a good time to be buying a house with lots of indicators pointing in the right direction; but sales are not picking up.
What's going on?
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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.