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Fairfax Media home loan affordability reports
Tuesday, 18 December 2007, 2:46 pm | Interest.co.nz
This series reports on changing home loan affordability for typical buyers and first-home buyers in New Zealand as a national market, and separately for 12 regions. Current real estate prices, mortgage rates and incomes are the three key determinants of ... More >>
Fairfax Media home loan affordability
Thursday, 15 November 2007, 4:22 pm | Interest.co.nz
This series reports on changing home loan affordability for both typical buyers, and first-home buyers, in detail for 12 regions. Current real estate prices, mortgage rates and incomes are three key determinants of home loan affordability. More >>
Home loan affordability - May 2007
Wednesday, 20 June 2007, 4:47 pm | Interest.co.nz
This monthly series is designed to measure how much of average weekly take-home pay is required to make a standard mortgage repayment for an average house. As at the end of May 2007, the national average was 79.3%, up marginally from April 2007 ... More >>
May 2007 home loan affordability index
Monday, 21 May 2007, 10:08 am | Interest.co.nz
This May 2007 report shows that affordability is dramatically falling. For most regions of New Zealand, it is not possible for one earner on an average income to afford a median-priced house and with house prices racing higher in April, along with the ... More >>
Rising mortgage rates - and how to mitigate them
Thursday, 20 July 2006, 9:42 am | Interest.co.nz
Just like petrol prices, mortgage rates are rising dramatically, and right when a disproportionate number of loans are up for re-fixing. interest.co.nz looks at why this is happening now, and what mortgage consumers can do to mitigate these rising ... More >>
Where the finance company sector is headed in 06
Tuesday, 4 April 2006, 11:41 am | Interest.co.nz
Finance companies are an important part of the investment landscape and, with over 60 institutions offering a range of retail deposit opportunities, they have become a unique option for investors in New Zealand. More >>
Secured debentures now exceed $10 billion
Monday, 23 January 2006, 10:19 am | Interest.co.nz
Research by http://www.interest.co.nz shows that the finance company debenture market broke through $10 billion in deposits for the first time in the December 2005 quarter. More >>
The tide has turned
Monday, 14 November 2005, 11:54 am | Interest.co.nz
Subscribers to our "just-the-facts" service will have noted a dramatic turn in both the swap rates and the debt market, in the charts that form the basis of that service. More >>
www.interest.co.nz updates SQP Scores
Tuesday, 20 September 2005, 9:25 am | Interest.co.nz
Six new financial institutions have been added to the review, and one has been removed after it was combined with a related party. More >>
In defence of [most] finance companies
Thursday, 8 September 2005, 3:10 pm | Interest.co.nz
Finance companies are coming under increasing scrutiny and criticism. David Chaston of www.interest.co.nz investigates. More >>
Interest rate history by government
Monday, 25 July 2005, 10:58 am | Interest.co.nz
Chart of interest rate history by government courtesy of www.interest.co.nz/news.html , using data from the RBNZ. More >>
www.interest.co.nz shows compounding options
Monday, 16 May 2005, 9:23 am | Interest.co.nz
www.interest.co.nz today released a new tool allowing savers to assess how interest can be compounded on their term deposits. More >>
interest.co.nz announces Term deposit market size
Monday, 18 April 2005, 9:03 am | Interest.co.nz
www.interest.co.nz today released details of the size and growth of the New Zealand term deposit market. More >>
Interest Comment: Yields for depositors look up
Tuesday, 15 March 2005, 10:50 am | Interest.co.nz
When Dr Bollard raised the OCR to the giddy heights of 6.75% last week, all eyes turned to the inevitable mortgage rate announcements. Westpac was the first out of the blocks, raising its variable rate to 9.05% and all the others are expected to ... More >>
Comment: Fair warning issued
Monday, 21 February 2005, 4:45 pm | Interest.co.nz
This month, we take a look at some revealing research recently published by Johnathan Bayley, the senior currency strategist at Westpac. He has looked at the relationship between Eurobond activity and currency movements, and looked ahead at 'net issuance'. More >>
Financial institution ranking - SQP Score - launch
Monday, 31 January 2005, 9:25 am | Interest.co.nz
The SQP Score© is designed to assist investors in bank and finance company term deposits and secured and unsecured debenture stock to easily assess the relative financial positions of the companies offers such products. More >>
Comment: What will interest rates do in 2005?
Wednesday, 12 January 2005, 4:45 pm | Interest.co.nz
The holiday season is the usual time to relax and ponder the prospects for the new year. Our views and prognostications have been developed with the same intellectual rigour as everyone else's – with a beer in one hand, fashion-challenged, trying to ... More >>
Still number one - just
Wednesday, 15 December 2004, 11:25 am | Interest.co.nz
The last of the main trading banks today released the details of their trading in the quarter to 30 September 2004, the period just before the 'mortgage war' broke out, and it shows that the struggle for market share of residential mortgages is ... More >>
Mortgage lending and bank stability
Tuesday, 30 November 2004, 4:19 pm | Interest.co.nz
Recently, the head of the Reserve Bank of Australia issued a direct warning about Australian mortgage lending. He specifically noted that banks "may be tempted to further lower lending standards, and that would carry with it serious medium-term ... More >>
How the Banks are about to make some serious money
Wednesday, 10 November 2004, 9:44 am | Interest.co.nz
The Banks are about to rake in some serious earnings from their mortgage portfolio, thanks to the Reserve Bank and its OCR policy. David Chaston is a commentator on New Zealand interest rates and explains what's behind the move... More >>
