interest rates (Page 2)

Good news for Aussie home buyers | 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

Two decades of The Block: How did the real estate landscape (and property values) appear in 2003

Cash rate

Warning interest rates could rise again following latest OCR announcement | WATCH

house prices

The Monetary Policy Committee has decided to keep the Official Cash Rate (OCR) unchanged at 5.50% | WATCH

Reserve Bank

Impending OCR Verdict: Factors the Reserve Bank Will Consider

house prices

Westpac forecasts an 8% increase in house prices for the upcoming year

Commerce Commission

Commerce Commission to focus on home loans

Commonwealth Bank achieves a staggering record profit following the implementation of 12 mortgage interest rate hikes

ANZ Property Focus

The Reasons Behind Kiwis Being Unable to Obtain a 30-Year Fixed Mortgage

Relief as the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) decides to keep the cash rate unchanged.

Sauvignon blanc

Sauvignon blanc land sells like GOLD

KiwiBuild

Government Refines Rent-to-Buy Home Ownership Scheme

Broker

Navigating the Mortgage Refinancing Process in New Zealand

Rising house prices fuelled by ‘bank of mum and dad’, retirees & migrants | WATCH

Interest Rates

Where are interest rates going to go?

Tom Panos

Real Estate Expert Warns of Tension at Australian Auctions as Chinese Buyers Outbid Locals

The Impact of Interest Rates on Purchasers of Investment Properties in Queensland

Kiwibank

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

debt repayments

Can Borrowers Be Affected by a Potential ‘Mortgage Bomb’?

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has revealed the successor to the current Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) Governor

REINZ

NZ house sales still down year on year – despite the industry talking the market up | REPORTS

Official Cash Rate

RBNZ Monetary Policy Committee agrees to leave the Official Cash Rate (OCR) at 5.50% | WATCH

Frances Cook

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

QV June 2023

House price drop softens | QUOTABLE VALUE NZ REPORT JUNE 2023 (FULL)

Why Australians can’t access 30-year fixed-rate loans like they do in the US | WATCH

The Global House Price Index by Knight Frank

House prices globally experience most sluggish growth since 2015 (FULL REPORT)

The Reserve Bank of Australia

RBA makes the BIG July cash rate call

Mortgage rates

Bank Raises One-Year Mortgage Rate Above 7%

Mortgage stress

New Data Reveals Growing Number of Australian Homeowners Selling Properties at a Loss

recession

How the rest of the world sees it: NZ in recession after dramatic interest rate hikes | WATCH

Mortgage rates

HEADS UP: Mortgage rates unlikely to drop

Stressed couple figuring out their finances

Do you need to restructure or refinance your mortgage and consolidate debt?

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

Why are house prices rising when rates are increasing? | WATCH

Banking system

Surely not? ANZ predicts one more OCR rise

Homeowner stress

Almost 20,000 homeowners falling behind on mortgage payments

Mortgage lending

Refinancing is easier to do than you think | Mortgage Lending

NZ housing market

CRISIS: Missed mortgage payments swell in New Zealand | WATCH

Mortgage Application

New residential mortgage lending takes a masive dive | RBNZ

Australian Inflation figures ‘encouraging’ as RBA set to halt rate rises | WATCH

Over 270,000 landlords struggling to refinance their fixed rate mortgage | WATCH

RBNZ

BAD NEWS MORTGAGE HOLDERS: ‘One Trick Pony’ – The Reserve Bank of New Zealand | WATCH

Money guru’s shock cash offer to homeowners

Reserve Bank of Australia hikes interest rates for tenth consecutive month | WATCH

Interest rates

Interest rate predictions for 2023 | WATCH

Westpac

Mortgage holders to feel the squeeze following Westpac’s predicted rate hike | WATCH

Westpac predicts interest rate cuts from next year | WATCH

Reserve Bank

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

Reserve Bank

Bank warns of more price rises as OCR jumps following Cyclone Gabrielle | WATCH

Are interest rates the only way to control inflation?

What to do if you can’t afford your mortgage repayments | WATCH

Which generation has had it harder in the property market? | WATCH

CoreLogic NZ

No reprieve for persistent property price falls | CoreLogic NZ (FULL REPORT)

Corelogic senior property economist Kelvin Davidson

CPI holds steady meaning OCR likely to be HIKED by 0.75% | CoreLogic NZ

inflation

When might interest rates drop?

Buyers vs sellers: who will win 2023’s real estate battle?

Julius Capilitan

Mortgage brokers key to greater activity this summer

Fear new homeowners could be forced to sell up | WATCH

Sammie’s variable interest rate has doubled in six months

RBA may not lift interest rates by as much as expected next week | WATCH

Banking system

Hold on KIWI mortgage holders – ANZ lifts home loan rates

Official Cash Rate

The GUY that keeps hiking your mortgage payments is reappointment as Reserve Bank Governor

mortgage expert

Official Cash Rate explainer: Why interest rate hikes are the go-to response

Kiwibank is third lender to announce big increase in home loan rates

Reserve Bank

More pain predicted for mortgagees as Reserve Bank eyes official cash rate hike

negative interest rates

WARNING: Reserve Bank may hike the OCR to a ‘horrific’ 4.75 pct

Aussies HIT with a record fifth increase in rates

House prices plunge at the fastest rate in nearly 40 years | WATCH

Kiwibank

Fixed mortgage rates may have peaked

MONSTER MORTGAGES

Tighter lending restrictions see New Zealanders seeking out second-tier lenders

Jonathan Brownlee

Give that man a beer: Owning 51 properties by the age of 26

Tracy Hemingway

Don’t jump off the ladder despite rising interest rates

Should first-home buyers wait for property prices to drop? | WATCH

RBA slaps down the property doomsayers

ANZ to buy Suncorp banking arm for $3.3 billion

Inflation

Mortgage holders to be SLAMMED more: Another big OCR expected

House prices

House prices nationally drop 3.4%

Has my bank increased interest rates yet? | WATCH

Mortgage finance

Mortgage rates aren’t going to get as high as expected

‘HOUSE PRICE TAILSPIN’: Backflip on the cards as recession risk intensifies

Major banks cut two-year mortgage rate

Bank announces massive hike to its interest rates

first home buyers

How 23yo saved $50k in one year for a house deposit

Banking system

ANZ “pauses” low-equity lending

Australia ranks HIGH on global property risk list.

First-home buyers ‘signing themselves up for a lifetime of debt’

Nikki Connors

IRD applies to put Propellor Property into liquidation

new home loans

NZ bank offers 1% cash boost for new home loans, up to $10k

Property Crash

NEW HOUSING CRISIS: New Zealand’s Emerging Property Disaster | WATCH

ENEWS

Property News NZ News Summary Wednesday 8 June, 2022

Biggest one-month lift in interest rates for 22 years

average asking price

Realestate.co.nz spokesperson Vanessa Williams on the property market | WATCH

Reserve Bank set to lift cash rate in another hike | WATCH

Ashley Church

High profile property investor loses the plot

Australian banks tighten lending standards as interest rates rise

Broker

Lending on new mortgages plummets

ENEWS

Property News NZ News Summary: Tuesday 31 May, 2022

REALLY? Reserve Bank governor says economy can handle higher interest rates | WATCH

Short term mortgage rates

Short term mortgage rates will rise by at least a quarter of a percent

Property News Australia – News Summary: Tuesday 24 May, 2022

Did boomers or millennials have it harder buying a house?

We reserve homes for over 55s. Why don’t we have villages for first home buyers?

Westpac

HOUSING SHOCK: Second bank predicts biggest fall in house prices since 1970s

Century 21 - Tim Kearins

Activity lightens but not a buyers’ market yet

house prices

‘Significant correction under way’ – Who will be hit hardest by house price falls?

To make housing affordable, property prices need to fall | WATCH

Hold on tight AUSTRALIA: Mortgage rates set to rise | Cash Rate LIFTS 0.35%

Mortgage stress

‘I never thought they’d give me as much money’: Tara is one of 280,000 borrowers who could be in trouble as rates rise

Property auction success PLUMMETS at Auckland’s biggest agency

Reserve Bank

RBNZ expects slowdown in high debt-to-income lending

Mortgage lending

Bad news for anyone with a mortgage

Expert warns RBA interest rate hike could happen next week

Trade Me Property

Number of properties for sale reached a record high

Emulate McDonald’s to upsize your property portfolio

NZ Property Market

New Zealand house price falls accelerate | WATCH

Jen Baird

FULL REPORT – Residential property sales decreased 33.5% | REINZ

Affordable Housing

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

OCR

OCR decision: How high will the Reserve Bank take the official cash rate?

The real estate issues the new Federal Government must tackle

New Zealand house prices DROP | QV

Interest rates on hold but experts tip a rise is coming

Tony Alexander

REINZ & Tony Alexander Real Estate Survey: Credit Crunch impacts still dominant

MORTGAGE SHOCK: Is this the new normal? Bank lifts home loan rates near 7 per cent

rent rises

HOUSING CRISIS: 80 percent of property investors are planning rent rises