Article tagged with 'interest rates'
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Mortgage borrowers drop short term fixes and flock to one-year rates
05 Sep 2025 - One-year fixed term mortgages are flavour of the month for new mortgage borrowers – a sign mortgage holders believe rates have further to fall.
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Overseas expansion and name change
21 Aug 2025 - Well-known Auckland mortgage adviser Jeff Royle has expanded his business to Australia and the UK and is changing its name.
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Re-fixing holdouts may have had the right strategy as RBNZ turns dovish
21 Aug 2025 - Mortgage holders who have been hanging out on short-term fixed rates, hoping that longer-term rates still had further to fall, may be proven to have had the right strategy.
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OCR needs a deeper drop to get economy going
18 Aug 2025 - This week’s expected OCR by the RBNZ and a signal it will make another is not going to be nowhere enough to dig the economy out of its hole.
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Data aligns for OCR cut and inflation easing
12 Aug 2025 - Kiwibank says the stars, or data, have aligned for an OCR cut next week to 3% and an eventual move to 2.5%.
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Weak labour data reinforces need for more OCR cuts
07 Aug 2025 - Economists are pushing for two OCR cuts before the end of the year in light of the weak labour market data.
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Longer mortgage terms favoured as OCR drops
06 Aug 2025 - One-year fixed term mortgages became the overwhelming choice for home buyers in June.
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Further cuts to OCR might be forced on RBNZ
05 Aug 2025 - With about 40% of existing mortgages due to roll over in the next six months and another 10% on floating rates, now could be the best time for those borrowers. That’s because Kiwibank is predicting the RBNZ will be forced to cut interest rates more than either it or the market currently expects, due to weaker economic data both here and overseas.
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Flatter prices in a well- balanced market
29 Jul 2025 - Westpac economists say their forecast of 6.2% growth in house prices growth this year now looks optimistic when they have only ramped up 1% in the past six months.
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Green light burning brightly for August interest rate cut
22 Jul 2025 - Another cut to the OCR next month is now as close to a done deal as can be the case, the BNZ says.