Market Update Archive

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Mortgages Nov 2019

Cash and bonuses:
Banks get competitive

Take one flat housing market. Add sub-4% interest rates. Stir in tight lending criteria. What do you get? Banks that are competing hard for quality borrowers.

Interest rates NOV 2019

Interest rates take
another drop

Just when we thought interest rates couldn’t go any lower, the Reserve Bank has been dropping serious hints that the current 1.5% OCR could drop again.