Have your ‘savings’ account within your home loan
- NZHL
- 28th of October 2016

If you have a mortgage and have a separate bank savings account you are doing the equivalent of driving a car on flat tyres. It works but not very well.
There are 2 main reasons for this, taxation...
Read MoreQuestioning interest rates
- NZHL
- 3rd of August 2016

As someone who is usually always questioned on interest rate I want to illustrate why it is never that simple using a single point of reference for a mortgage. I’ll illustrate it with Smith vs Smyth.
Read MoreAre you benefiting from the OCR drop?
- NZHL
- 28th of July 2015

With the Reserve Bank dropping the OCR by 0.25% and most of the banks reacting immediately by dropping their floating rates we remain in a position of historic low interest rates. Around 80% of...
Read MoreInterest Rate vs Mortgage Term
- NZHL
- 28th of May 2015

‘You only know what you know’. Or in terms of a mortgage, you may only know what your lender chooses to reveal.A quick look at a mortgage comparison site, interest.co.nz, and all you see are...
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