OCR

Shock Decision: RBA Holds Rates at 3.85% Despite Market Expectations

2025-07-08

OPINION | RBNZ Stalls Again: OCR Hold Locked In for July – But One More Cut Is Coming

2025-07-04

OCR cut to 3.25% – What It Means for Your Mortgage and the Property Market | WATCH

2025-05-28

Will the OCR Drop Again This Week? 5 Key Housing Market Insights You Need Now

2025-05-26

Is the RBNZ Poised for Another 50bps Rate Cut to 3% to Rescue NZ’s Economic Recovery?

2025-04-21

Trump’s Tariffs Will Crush NZ’s Property Market – Here’s How It Gets Worse

2025-04-03

The Reserve Bank is expected to cut the OCR by 0.5%, but top business leaders argue it’s too little, too late | WATCH

2025-02-16

Expert predicts 4% + mortgage rates are arriving soon

2025-01-09

2025: Official Cash Rate (Predictions) | WATCH

2025-01-06

MASSIVE OCR cut possible next month

2024-10-22

COMING DOWN: New Zealand’s best advertised mortgage rates

2024-10-09

The NZ property market is sitting steady and ready for lower interest rate stimulus | REPORT

2024-10-08

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

2024-10-07

­­The New Zealand Property (FULL) Report: August 2024

2024-09-02

How low will mortgage rates fall?

2024-08-19

NZ Property Market: Homeowners are selling before they are forced to by their bank

2024-07-22

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

2024-07-18

Expert expects mortgage interest rates to come down | WATCH

2024-07-12

Major bank is cutting its home loan interest rates on the back of OCR indicators

2024-07-11

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

2024-05-14

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

2024-03-04

BREAKING NEWS: Our ‘One Trick Pony’ RBNZ keeps the Official Cash Rate on hold at 5.5%

2024-02-28

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

2024-02-21

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

2024-02-16

What the HELL is going on with interest rate expectations?

2024-02-13

Don’t get too excited about interest rate cuts

2024-01-30

MORTGAGE WAR? Kiwibank cuts mortgage rates

2024-01-16

Reserve Bank maintains the official cash rate at 5.5 percent

2023-11-29

OCR Announcement: Will the RBNZ Change Its Interest Rate Plans?

2023-11-27

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

2023-11-18

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

2023-10-31

Banks are lifting mortgage rates despite the OCR being on hold

2023-10-25

OCR Reaches Its Highest Level in 15 Years, Signaling Increased Mortgage Challenges

2023-10-06

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

2023-08-21

Prospects of prolonged mortgage rate discomfort persist

2023-08-17

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

2023-08-16

Impending OCR Verdict: Factors the Reserve Bank Will Consider

2023-08-14

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

2023-08-10

MORTGAGE PAIN: BNZ keeps lifting home loan rates

2023-08-01

HSBC Predicts a 5% Increase in House Prices for 2024

2023-07-25

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

2023-07-12

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

2023-07-11

Bank Raises One-Year Mortgage Rate Above 7%

2023-07-03

Advice for weathering the mortgage hikes | WATCH

2023-06-21

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

2023-06-17

HEADS UP: Mortgage rates unlikely to drop

2023-06-16

ASB Housing Confidence Survey: Kiwi Still On The Fence On Housing Market

2023-06-14

Official cash rate lifts has roughly doubled the mortgage rates paid by Kiwis

2023-06-06

Surely not? ANZ predicts one more OCR rise

2023-05-31

Interest rates hiked again – but could this be the peak? | WATCH

2023-05-25

Too many good landlords leaving the housing market

2023-05-23

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

2023-05-22

Lending changes help stimulate the housing market | homes.co.nz

2023-05-11

CRISIS: Missed mortgage payments swell in New Zealand | WATCH

2023-04-08

NZ’s Official Cash Rate UP to 5.25% VS Australia’s is HELD at 3.6% | WATCH

2023-04-05

Here’s where house prices have fallen by 20%

2023-04-05

NZ house values weak ahead of OCR decision

2023-04-05

RECESSION: One in every 100 home loans (1.29%) is in MORTGAGE arrears

2023-04-04

Ready for more RBNZ inflicted pain New Zealand?

2023-04-03

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

2023-03-23

‘Real recession’ still to come – economist

2023-03-17

What do the recent changes to the OCR mean for the homeowner? | homes.co.nz

2023-03-07

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

2023-03-07

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

2023-03-01

More household pain predicted | WATCH

2023-02-24

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

2023-02-23

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

2023-01-25

Major bank’s unusual move to drop 5-year mortgage below 1-year rate

2023-01-24

Buyers and sellers should take their opportunities now

2023-01-19

When might interest rates drop?

2023-01-17

The six week window | NZ home buyers

2023-01-12

New Zealand’s 2022 property market downturn deeper than predicted | CoreLogic

2022-12-15

How high are mortgage interest rates really going to go?

2022-12-08

New Zealand central bank sets NZ up for a 2023 RECESSION | WATCH

2022-11-28

OCR INCREASE: RBNZ sticks a ‘knife through the heart’ of mortgaged kiwis

2022-11-23

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

2022-11-23

If the RBNZ lifts the OCR to 4.45% – Jacinda is GONE as PM in 2023

2022-11-21

ANZ: New Zealand house prices to “fully unwind”

2022-11-14

Reserve Bank created ‘perfect storm’ for inequality

2022-11-14

Negative equity is HERE for some and is looming for MANY homeowners

2022-11-11

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

2022-11-08

Ardern asks banks to reassess record profit-making in light of cost-of-living crisis

2022-11-08

HOUSING SHOCK: ANZ warns house prices will fall at least 27%

2022-10-26

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

2022-10-24

NZ CRISIS: Homeowners expect to struggle when the OCR goes higher

2022-10-20

‘Worse than the most pessimistic predictions’: Economists warn of more rate hikes

2022-10-19

Interest rate rise will cause MASSIVE ‘pain for another year’

2022-10-07

The Reserve Bank continues to inflict pain on Kiwi mortgage holders

2022-10-05

Kiwis warned 2023 will be tough and uncomfortable

2022-10-04

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

2022-10-03

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

2022-09-17

Auckland house prices down 15 per cent

2022-09-15

Fixed mortgage rates may have peaked

2022-08-29

Cost to service a mortgage ‘alarmingly high’

2022-08-29

Economist says house prices will keep falling through 2022, but when will they recover?

2022-08-27

New Zealand rate cuts and house price falls canary in the coal mine

2022-08-25

What the Reserve Bank has to say about OCR hike to 3% | WATCH

2022-08-19

RBNZ increases OCR to 3.0%

2022-08-17

MORE PAIN TO COME: Forecast suggests no OCR reductions until mid 2024

2022-08-17

NEW HOUSING CRISIS: Homeowners brace for rise in mortgage rates

2022-08-17

House prices fall at fastest rate in more than a decade

2022-08-03

Kiwis in tears as New Zealand house prices plunge

2022-07-26

SHOCK: Average asking price drops $24,500 in just four weeks | TRADE ME

2022-07-19

Mortgage holders to be SLAMMED more: Another big OCR expected

2022-07-19

Claims of widespread mortgage stress ‘plain wrong’ despite rising interest rates – commentator

2022-07-15

OUCH: Watch out NZ mortgage holders | RBNZ lifts OCR to 2.5%

2022-07-13

‘Little respite’ for falling New Zealand property market

2022-07-11

New Zealand’s housing market cooling rapidly | GLOBAL REPORT

2022-07-09

Banks pocketing more money on mortgages

2022-06-28

NEW HOUSING CRISIS: Asking prices down 2 percent in just a month, largest-ever drop

2022-06-15

Millions of Aussies under mortgage stress amid shocking rate rise | WATCH

2022-06-09

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

2022-06-09

Labour lead Government needs to better promote its first-home buyer support

2022-06-08

Biggest one-month lift in interest rates for 22 years

2022-06-07

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

2022-06-07