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28 January 2025 - Over the past three years higher interest rates have translated in dollar terms to a $10 billion increase in mortgage borrowing costs.
19 December 2024 - Mortgage interest rates should fall back and settle somewhere between 4.5% and 5% next year.
23 September 2024 - Squirrel moves into the South Island with the purchase of a former Loan Market business.
25 May 2023 - Squirrel Mortgages is confident yesterday’s OCR rise won’t have any upward impact on mortgage interest rates.
27 January 2023 - Squirrel has launched an on-call account which it says is better than the rest.
21 November 2022 - Along with a new boss and a new building, Squirrel wants to do new things with its acorns
21 July 2022 - Squirrel is to merge with the Wellington-based mortgage brokerage, The Home Loan Shop.
8 March 2022 - Squirrel boss John Bolton has decided to step back to allow a former bank chief executive take over running the business.
26 November 2021 - Squirrel is offering Kiwi investors a new opportunity to invest in the $320 billion New Zealand home loan market.
21 September 2021 - Mortgage advisers will benefit from CCCFA lending changes as borrowers seek help with complex home loan applications, according to Squirrel's John Bolton.
24 August 2021 - Watch a new video from Squirrel on its home loan product.
16 August 2021 - Mortgage advice firm Squirrel has received more than 1000 applications for its 95% mortgage product, Launchpad, followings its rollout in April.
21 April 2021 - Squirrel Mortgages has launched a 95% mortgage for first home buyers, offering rates as low as 4.09%.
1 September 2020 - Advisers say the second lockdown was easier to navigate than the shutdown in March, with stronger business activity and less disruption than before.
31 July 2020 - Non-bank lenders have reported a flood of new customers turned away by the banks in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, as traditional lenders stick to conservative credit limits.
31 March 2020 - As New Zealand begins to settle into the “new normal” of the Covid-19 lockdown, commentators have started releasing their (tentative) outlooks for the housing market. Here’s a summary of some of them...
16 March 2020 - The Reserve Bank's decision to lower the official cash rate to 0.25% is good news for borrowers, but advisers fear Covid-19 will significantly slow activity in the housing market.
6 March 2020 - An official cash rate cut looks increasing likely amid the Covid-19 outbreak, but economists doubt mortgage rates will drop much further than current levels.
13 February 2020 - Squirrel has opened up its mortgage lending book to peer-to-peer funders, providing access to retail investors as Harmoney pulls out of the P2P market.
10 September 2019 - KiwiBuild “reset” policies will boost demand, rather than supply, and that will lead to house price rises, Westpac’s economists are predicting.
5 September 2019 - 5% deposits for first home buyers – it’s one of the centrepieces of the KiwiBuild “reset” – but advisers are asking whether it will actually make the sort of difference hoped for.
7 February 2019 - This year’s Squirrel property investors’ survey reveals that uncertainty over government policy changes reigns supreme and that’s impacting on how investors go about their business.
5 February 2019 - New Zealand mortgage advisers have expressed their disappointment at recommendations from Australia's Royal Commission, including bans on commission and a possible move to a fee-for-service model.
10 January 2019 - The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has relaxed restrictions on interest-only lending, and mortgage advisers hope the decision will have a positive impact on New Zealand's lending market.
12 December 2018 - Mortgage adviser group Squirrel has launched an innovative product to help first home buyers get on the property ladder.
27 March 2018 - Leading New Zealand mortgage brokers have voiced their concerns about tightening restrictions on interest-only loans, as Australian lenders clamp down on the products.
19 December 2017 - Artificial intelligence (AI) has hit New Zealand’s mortgage sector with the launch this week of a chat bot aimed at first home buyers.
16 August 2017 - Prime Minister Bill English has ruled out allowing the Reserve Bank to bring in debt-to-income ratios. It had suggested limiting loans to no more than five times borrowers’ incomes.
3 August 2017 - Financial Advice NZ's working group has revealed the board who will lead it through the establishment phase.
13 December 2016 - He holds the record for being the fastest over 10km on crutches and now Squirrel mortgage adviser, Brad Luiten can add another Guiness World Record accolade to his name.
20 September 2016 - Squirrel Money founder John Bolton says he probably would not have bothered with peer-to-peer lending if he had not been able to see opportunities beyond it.
3 August 2016 - Peer-to-peer lender Squirrel Money is to launch a secondary market for its investors next week.
12 April 2016 - John Bolton's mortgage broking and peer-to-peer lending business, Squirrel, has raised $3.5 million through a crowdfunding offer to help the business expand.
5 April 2016 - Squirrel has opened its equity crowdfunding offer to the public which was previously available via Snowball Effect only to Squirrel’s database of clients...
4 April 2016 - Squirrel’s equity crowdfunding offer has been made open to the public.
It had previously been available via Snowball Effect only to Squirrel’s database...
26 March 2016 - Squirrel's equity crowdfunding offer may be made available to the general public early next month.
The mortgage broker and peer-to-peer lender is raising...
22 March 2016 - Peer-to-peer lender Harmoney is putting a secondary market on the back burner because it says it is not a priority for investors.
14 March 2016 - Two days after releasing its offer documents, Squirrel’s equity crowdfunding offer had already exceeded its target.
8 March 2016 - Squirrel founder John Bolton says there are indications clients will put up $4 million in its equity crowdfunding offer, launched today.
4 March 2016 - Squirrel’s founder has revealed an ambitious plan for growth ahead of a share market listing within the next 18 months. Read here.
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4 March 2016 - Squirrel’s founder has revealed an ambitious plan for growth ahead of a share market listing within the next 18 months.
1 March 2016 - HIgh profile mortgage adviser John Bolton recently won a top award for the volume of business he wrote last year, here he talks to Philip Macalister about what's happening in the market.
11 February 2016 - Mortgage broking firm Squirrel is offering its client base and other supporters a slice of the company.
9 December 2015 - Peer-to-peer platforms need to start regularly disclosing information to their investors about more than just the individual loans they are invested in, one provider has argued.
4 December 2015 - Harmoney is now charging a flat upfront fee of $375 to borrowers, replacing a percentage model that was being investigated by the Commerce Commission.
2 November 2015 - Squirrel Money has opened for business and is promising market-beating personal loan rates.
1 November 2015 - Squirrel Money has got off to a soft launch.
The peer-to-peer lender had been set to launch on October 29 but Squirrel founder John Bolton said that had...
16 October 2015 - Squirrel Money is set to launch in less than a fortnight.
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