74 articles written by Liz Seatter

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Home Loans

15 lenders cut fixed rates this month – should borrowers fix or stay variable?

15 lenders including CBA, Westpac, Macquarie, Suncorp and Athena have cut fixed rates this month, signalling a shift in the market, as more borrowers begin shopping around.

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Home Loans

ANZ cuts variable rates - but only for new customers

ANZ has cut new customer variable rates by 0.50 percentage points, in the same month existing customers rates rose by half a percent following the RBA hike.

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Savings Accounts

Competition forces savings rates up as Westpac and NAB hike

In a much-needed boost for savers, big four banks, Westpac and NAB, have today hiked rates on their popular saving accounts.

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Home Loans

ANZ predicts four more double RBA hikes by November

If the cash rate gets to 3.35% by November, as forecast by ANZ, the average borrower could be paying a total of $909 more a month in the space of seven months.

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Savings Accounts

Big four bank savings rate hikes start from today – has your account gone up?

The big four banks have started to raise savings rates – but only on select accounts.

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Home Loans

ANZ joins CBA and hikes home loan and some savings rates by 0.50%

ANZ has followed CBA and hiked variable rate mortgages and some savings account by the full 0.50 percentage points.

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Home Loans

CBA hikes home loan rates and some savings accounts by 0.50%

Australia’s largest bank, CBA, is the first of the big four to announce it will pass yesterday’s double cash rate hike onto its variable home loan customers.

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Home Loans

Australia’s love affair with fixing ends as refinancing surges

New borrowers have turned their backs on fixing, with just 12% of the value of new home loans fixed in May, according to the ABS.

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Savings Accounts

Savings rates inch north as CBA and ANZ hike select accounts

CBA and ANZ have both hiked select savings accounts today by up to 0.30 percentage points.

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Home Loans

Big bank mortgage rate hikes kick in

The big four bank mortgage rate hikes kick in, but millions of savers miss out.