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Fixed rate mortgages set to rise

Money markets are pricing in a rate rise increase for 2010. In fact some pundits suggest two rate rises and maybe even a third between now and the end of the first quarter of 2011. Investors and mortgage holders and people looking at refinancing their mortgages may consider fixed mortgages as a way of...Read more...

Fixed rates on mortgages fall

The benchmark 3 and 5 fixed-rate mortgage rates fell this week, to the lowest level for three months. Further anecdotal reports suggest that mortgages in the most recent surveys had an average total of 0.26 discount and origination points. Fixed mortgage rates have lingered since mid-June because of...Read more...

To fix or not to fix

Should you fix your loan now to escape further rate hikes? Our experts suggest that the time to fix may have passed. The Reserve Bank's decision to hold off on a rate rise this month, combined with concerns that the European sovereign debt crisis may is the beginning of GFC II, might lead people to think...Read more...