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?
It was great to attend Loan Market's recent PD day and Christmas celebration. The group is on a strong growth path to becoming New Zealand's best known mortgage advice brand. It's also got some exciting developments in train. You can find out more about the Loan Market offering here.
TSB holds its market share
Taranaki-based TSB Bank held its share of the mortgage market steady in the March quarter while its profitability improved from a relatively depressed December quarter.
Monday, May 29th 2006, 8:56PM
by Jenny Ruth
The bank's annual report shows its mortgage book grew $33.5 million to $1.53 billion over the quarter. Using Reserve Bank figures as a proxy for the market, that puts its market share at 1.29% little changed from the end of December but down from 1.31% in March last year when its mortgage book stood at $1.35 billion.
Net profit for the quarter grew 10.2% to $7.32 million, bringing the annual increase to 11.9% at $31.3 million. The December quarter increase had been just 6.4%. The bank has increased its profit in each of the past 19 years.
The bank's deposit base grew 10% to $2.36 billion over the year while total assets rose 11% to $2.6 billion.
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