Heartland Bank's latest rise in its carded fixed home loan rates still leaves it with some of the lowest rates in the market. The approaching May selling period is the last main chance for banks to me ...

Analysis - The odds are still stacked against property investors, as market conditions continue to favour first-home buyers.

The Government is ending a loan scheme designed to help strengthen earthquake-prone apartments, leaving gobsmacked owners in the lurch. Construction work on a central Wellington building with 10 ...

RBNZ's Christian Hawkesby cautions against throwing out 'internationally accepted approach to bank capital for large, sophisticated financial institutions' ...

The number of new home loans increased by nearly 30% in the six months to December 2023 according to retail banking insights released today by the New Zealand Banking Association.

Most homeowners are taking up short home-loan deals because they believe interest rates will fall soon, but one bank is trying to lure customers in on long ...

Last week, personal loan rates increased. But you can still snag a reasonable rate, whether you're looking to finance a home remodeling project, vehicle, unexpected bills or temporarily need to ...

Local borrowers are trying to second-guess when the Reserve Bank (RBNZ) will start cutting interest rates by moving to shorter term mortgages, even though it will cost them more, according to a new ...

"Labour was too eager to see mutually-beneficial agreements as a conspiracy against borrowers, and, ironically, making it harder to borrow from the bank drove would-be borrowers into the arms of ...

Interest rates on refinanced student loans are slipping. During the week of April 15, the average fixed interest rate on a 10-year refinance loan was 7.40% for borrowers with a credit score of 720 or ...

A further step for improving access to high quality dispute services is the Government’s support for the proposed merger of the Insurance & Financial Services Ombudsman Scheme (IFSO) and the Financial ...

PCE inflation, which is watched closely by the Federal Reserve, picked up in March while a core measure stayed high.