Reserve Bank

First home buyers

More Banks Slash Mortgage Rates Ahead of Major Reserve Bank Decision — Is This the Start of a Rate War?

Nicola Willis

Budget Bloodbath! NZ Govt Slashes Reserve Bank Funding by 25% in Shock Move

Roommates laughing out loud on the sofa

OCR Cut: What It Means for House Prices and Your Mortgage

Trump

Tariff War Panic: Economists Sound the Alarm on Skyrocketing NZ Interest Rates | WATCH

Tony Alexander

Tony Alexander: Will the New Zealand property market bounce back in 2025? | WATCH

RBNZ

Will the Reserve Bank Meet Expectations? A Look Ahead to the OCR Decision

Mortgage rates

How low will mortgage rates fall?

RBNZ

NZ’s Official cash rate predicted to drop to 5%

interest rates

Need a cheaper mortgage rate? Push for the “under the table” discounts

Cooling housing market

Auckland housing market the sickest it has ever been

Hannah McQueen

Expert expects mortgage interest rates to come down | WATCH

Westpac

Westpac’s house price growth prediction gloomy

house prices

Aussie house prices are on fire BUT New Zealand house prices plummet

Homeowner stress

PAIN CONTINUES FOR MORTGAGE HOLDERS: Don’t expect the OCR to come down soon

Kiwibank

Are we about to see Mortgage Wars? Banks dropping mortgage rates

first-home buyers

Why this market is a first home buyers market | WATCH

Sydney Opera House

Australian house prices are on fire | WATCH

mortgage stress

ASB: Tough times almost over

interest rate rises

Economist expects Reserve Bank to slash the OCR

Corelogic senior property economist Kelvin Davidson

Economists’ interest rate predictions for the rest of 2024

Mortgage Calculator

Major bank slashes mortgage rates

ASB

Is this the start of the NZ 2024 MORTGAGE WARS? | WATCH

Australia

CRISIS: Kiwi homeowners are having to sell up, take second job or move to Australia

Westpac

NZ Banks seeing it different: Westpac picks OCR likely to remain on hold

Official Cash Rate

ALERT: Watch the ‘one trick pony’ Reserve Bank HIKE Mortgage Rates!

Mortgage Rates

Mortgage rates below 5% by the end of 2025?

St Hilliers construction company

One of Australia’s biggest construction companies folds

10-year fixed mortgage rate

Don’t get too excited about interest rate cuts

Broker

MORTGAGE WARS: One major bank has trimmed some of their mortgage rates

OCR

What you need to know about the new home loan rules

Kiwibank

MORTGAGE WAR? Kiwibank cuts mortgage rates

NZ house prices

Where will house prices go in 2024?

Stressed woman

Inflation is remaining stubbornly high at 5.6 percent – expect mortgage rate rises in 2024

More people are lying to get home loans | WATCH

Reserve Bank

Why New Zealand interest rates need to stay high in 2024

Stressed woman

Home loan borrowers worrying about higher mortgage rates may finally be getting good news

Westpac

Westpac is now the only bank expecting the Reserve Bank to need to increase the official cash rate (OCR)

First home

Kiwis Share Regrets Over First Home Purchase Amid Ongoing Cost-of-Living Crisis

homeowners

WARNING: Homeowners face a VERY tough 2024

Stressed woman

11.7 percent of New Zealanders are behind on debt repayments | RBNZ

Online mortgage inquiry

Anticipated Increase in Interest Rates as Australian Property Values Near All-Time High

Westpac

Westpac predicts that migration and increasing house prices will continue to contribute to inflation

Stressed woman

Banks are lifting mortgage rates despite the OCR being on hold

mortgage holidays

Want to predict if your mortgage interest will go up or down? This is a MUST!

first home buyers

First home buyers: Record-high purchases | CoreLogic NZ

Reserve Bank

The Reserve Bank has maintained interest rates for the fourth consecutive meeting

Jacinda

Thank you Labour and RBNZ | Higher mortgage arrears

For Sale Sign

Possible New Debt-to-Income Lending Regulations Could Impact Housing Market Momentum – CoreLogic

Average asking price

Prices are rising in the housing market but will it last?

ASB Housing Confidence survey

ASB has increased its two-year fixed mortgage rates to their highest point in 14 years

Reserve Bank

Interest rates on hold at 4.1pc for third-straight month | WATCH

Affordable Housing

The Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) anticipates that the strain on mortgages will escalate until the middle of 2024 | WATCH

Homeowner stress

Prospects of prolonged mortgage rate discomfort persist

Reserve Bank

Impending OCR Verdict: Factors the Reserve Bank Will Consider

HSBC

HSBC Predicts a 5% Increase in House Prices for 2024

Kiwibank

Kiwibank increases interest rates for home loans, with the standard one-year rate reaching close to 8%

Frances Cook

Reserve Bank Poised to Revise Official Cash Rate (OCR) | WATCH

Nicola Willis

Labour’s economic mismanagement is wreaking havoc on New Zealanders

Karl Stefanovic Slams Reserve Bank and Government as Aussies Risk Losing Homes | WATCH

Homeowner stress

Heightened Concern among Kiwis as Mortgage Interest Rates Surge | WATCH

Homeowner stress

Advice for weathering the mortgage hikes | WATCH

Reserve Bank increases cash rate by 25 basis points – WESTPAC lifts rates already

financial crisis

‘Eye-watering’ spending in Budget 2023 will see Reserve Bank raise OCR this week

NZ house values weak ahead of OCR decision

What it would take for ‘lukewarm’ housing market to turn?

ASB

Increasing numbers of people think house prices will fall – Do You?

Reserve Bank expected to announce its tenth rate rise | WATCH

Reserve Bank

Reserve Bank ‘mistakes’ in firing line amid first review in decades | WATCH

RBA expected to lift cash rate to 4.1 per cent | WATCH

RBNZ

ALERT | RBNZ is a ‘one trick pony’ – OCR expected to get biggest ever hike

Adrian Orr

Reserve Bank created ‘perfect storm’ for inequality

Australia’s richest man slams ‘idiotic’ RBA

Affordable Housing

Kiwis in tears as New Zealand house prices plunge

RATE RISE SHOCKER: Terrifying sign for Aussie mortgage payers

Broker

Lending on new mortgages plummets

David Seymour

‘People are getting hammered’: Seymour lashes out

The Reserve Bank of Australia

Reserve Bank hints at June interest rate hike

Affordable Housing

READY FOR IT? Reserve Bank goes big and mortgage rates have further to rise

‘Runaway inflation’: Interest rates tipped to rise in this week’s Reserve Bank decision

Big banks predict four or five interest rate rises in next six months

Nelson house prices

MARKET CORRECTION: Kiwi house sellers start to adjust their sights

first home buyers

The New Zealand Problem – NZ House Prices | WATCH

Australian house prices

ALERT: Major bank predicts when house prices will fall

Official Cash Rate

Reserve Bank boss warns first-home buyers mortgage rate shocks are ‘part of the real world’

house prices NZ

Official cash rate hike ‘just another blow’ for first-time home buyers

mortgage stress

First-home buyer ‘not very hopeful’ for mortgage rate approval as Reserve Bank lifts Official Cash Rate

OCR hike won’t put renters off buying first-homes

First home owner

What today’s OCR increase means for the property market

house prices

High inflation, house prices likely to force OCR rise this week – economists

NZ Property Market

COOLING OFF: NZ property slowdown

house prices

‘Tide is changing’ on house prices – Reserve Bank | WATCH

First home

The clue that points to a year’s worth of consecutive interest rate hikes

Reserve Bank

Reserve Bank finalising more measures to cool housing market

HOUSING CRISIS

HOUSING CRISIS: ‘Level and trajectory’ of house prices creating risks for recent buyers

Housing crisis: All eyes on housing market ahead of Reserve Bank’s next report

National house price

House prices spiked in October as Reserve Bank anticipates drop

official cash rate

Reserve Bank’s official cash rate hike concerning homeowners and those hoping to buy

RBNZ

Will Reserve Bank raise the cash rate?

10 suburbs where house prices are surging over $50,000 a MONTH

Mortgage lending

Kiwi’s favourite pastime: Borrowing for property – increases

House price crash

House prices could drop soon, Reserve Bank predicts | WATCH

mortgage

How to pay off your mortgage faster

Adrian Orr

OCR pause won’t send house prices skyrocketing again

interest rate rises

Level 4 COVID restrictions forces the Official Cash Rate to hold at 0.25 percent | WATCH

First home buyers

First home buyers to pay thousands more when deposit rules change

ANZ Bank

Major NZ bank hikes interest rates ahead of OCR decision | WATCH

Banks

Bank makes prediction for when NZ house prices will start falling

First home owner

TRAGIC NEWS for New Zealand’s first home buyers

RBNZ

Reserve Bank eyes tighter mortgage lending

Housing market

Housing market slows, but prices unlikely to drop

Official Cash Rate

Reserve Bank money printing programme to come to an end

Kelvin Davidson

OCR unchanged, but higher mortgage rates loom

ASB

ASB increases interest mortgage rates ahead of Reserve Bank OCR announcement

Official Cash Rate

The first Official Cash Rate (OCR) hike in seven years is expected | QV

low interest rates

Have we seen the end of low interest rates? | homes.co.nz

mortgage expert

Interest rate shock: Bank picks OCR to go up within months

Tony Alexander

REINZ & Tony Alexander Real Estate Survey | July 2021

Chlöe Swarbrick

Greens, National and ACT enraged over Labour shooting down request for briefing on house price forecasting

global financial crisis

Reserve Bank won’t hike interest rates massively as it’d make housing market ‘fall over’

Commonwealth Bank

CBA says interest rate hike is on its way

Broker

Broker warns ‘poor will get poorer’

Housing crisis

Housing crisis: Prices going up fastest ‘since records began’

private sale

RIPPED OFF? First home-buyer snaps up home below valuation in private sale

homeowners

Warning signs for homeowners

hot housing market

How the housing market got so cooked

house price growth

Time for house price growth to ‘come to a grinding halt’ – Reserve Bank Governor Adrian Orr