Mortgage Rates Daily Commentary
Wednesday 1 April 2026
Big newsletter today: Top mortgage advisers; BNZ's new switching play; KAN dobs in adviser to FMA
With so much going on this is a much bigger newsletter than usual.
First up a big congrats to Josh Bronkhorst for being recognised by FANZ for his long involvement with financial advisers and helping to grow professionalism in the industry.
Also a shoutout to NZFSG/Loan Market for their work in community support.
You can read more about their awards and others who were recognised at last week's FANZ conference here.
BNZ has started a new game to win mortgage switches. We'd love to know you thoughts on this.
Read the story here.
Send us an email here.
The FMA has cancelled the FAP Licence of a mortgage adviser after being dobbed in by KAN. See what he did here.
Mortgage borrowing continues to bloom
Latest figures from the Reserve Bank show that mortgage borrowing levels continuue to grow.
Friday, August 9th 2002, 9:33AM
by Jenny Ruth
New Zealanders borrowed an additional $406 million in mortgages in June, bringing the total owed on housing to $71.03 billion, the latest Reserve Bank figures show.
June’s mortgage borrowing total was 8.1% higher than the $65.7 billion owed on housing in June last year.
That was just below the 8.2% year-on-year increase recorded in May. Until now, the year-on-year percentage increases have been steadily accelerating from the 5.6% increase in April last year from April 2000.
Mortgage borrowing represented 90.8% of total household indebtedness in June which was $78.25 billion, up from $77.76 billion in May and $72.34 billion in June last year.
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