- Interest rates are rising, but Whangarei business owner Tonya Russell says the prospect of bigger loan repayments hasn’t really crossed her mind yet.
She has her mortgage divided into smaller loans, set across different terms, with an offset facility, to minimise her exposure to rate changes.
The mortgage on her business property is fixed, with interest-only payments. “I’m risk averse,” she says. “I hope I get a good rate [when I refix]. But the economy is out of my control so I don’t worry about it. If I have to earn more money I will.”
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