by Elise Vine | Oct 7, 2021 | Blog
Over the last 18 months or so we have been enjoying an extended period of low inflation and super low interest rates. Property prices have been going crazy, and it’s never been cheaper to borrow money. Fine if you’re already in the market, but pretty hard going if you...
by Elise Vine | Oct 1, 2021 | Newsletters
Hi there! Here we are in October already – wow! It’s been quite a month. Great that Auckland has made it down to Alert Level 3. All going well, Auckland may be back at Level 2 after the announcement on the 4th October. The “feel” of this latest lockdown...
by Elise Vine | Sep 1, 2021 | Newsletters
Hi there! Well this certainly hasn’t been the month we expected! Back into a Level 4 lockdown, at the discovery of the Covid-19 Delta variant here in little old NZ! Are you ok? These lockdowns have massive impacts on our lives – for some of us it means no work or...
by Elise Vine | Aug 19, 2021 | Blog
OCR Update The OCR remained at 0.25% yesterday, as expected in light of the current Alert Level 4 lockdown. All indications were that it was going to rise at this announcement, but of course a nationwide lockdown changes things! The Governor indicated that the Reserve...
by Elise Vine | Aug 4, 2021 | Blog
On Tuesday the Reserve Bank announced that an MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) has been signed with the Minister of Finance regarding a macro-prudential policy. What this means is that along with the tightening of the responsible lending rules that have been...
