First Home Buyers - May 24th What is First Home Partner? All You Need to Know! Update September 29, 2023: Due to high demand, the First Home Partner scheme is fully subscribed. As a result, currently, it is not accepting any new applications. There's little doubt that aspiring first home buyers (FHBs) …
Banking & Insurance - May 16th Mortgage Rates: Could You Save $872 Per Month? Over the past few months, the rise and rise of mortgage rates has been precipitous. Last August, the average one-year fixed rate for owner-occupiers on Canstar’s mortgage database was 2.58%. Now it is sitting around …
First Home Buyers - May 12th Squirrel: Moving to NZ from Overseas: How to Get a Mortgage in NZ How to get a mortgage in NZ: After a brutal 708 days of border closures and MIQ lotteries, New Zealand finally began its grand reopening to the world at midnight on Friday 4th March, 2022 …
First Home Buyers - May 5th Squirrel: House Prices Hit, but Will They Fall Further? It probably won’t come as a surprise to anyone who checked out the housing market recently, but house prices are officially on the way down. While some may be treating it like breaking news, in reality, …
First Home Buyers - May 4th 7% Mortgage Rate Stress Test: Will Your Mortgage Survive? Banks are now stress testing new home loan applications with mortgage rates over 7%. What does this mean for where mortgage rates are headed and what does it mean for the average Kiwi mortgage? Canstar …
First Home Buyers - April 28th How to Bid at Auction: Eight Top Tips to Help You Succeed Author: Alasdair Duncan If you’ve ever been to an auction, you’ll know that the experience can be both exciting and tense. As a property goes under the hammer, rival buyers compete to present the highest bid, …
First Home Buyers - April 5th Lowest Construction Loan Interest Rate Deals If you've not already noticed, there's a building boom going on at the moment. New builds are shooting up everywhere. And the trend looks set to continue for a while yet. According to new government …
First Home Buyers - April 1st How to Cut Your Mortgage Interest Rate As the cost of living soars, every little saving most certainly counts. The Government’s temporary relief measure on fuel taxes will help many struggling with household bills, but it’s impossible to know how long the …
Banking & Insurance - April 1st Canstar NZ Consumer Pulse Report 2022 Here at Canstar, we talk to a lot of ordinary Kiwis. Over the course of a year, we canvass the opinions of many thousands of New Zealand adults. It's research that forms the basis of …
First Home Buyers - February 24th Pre-Purchase Building Inspection: Do You Need One? What is a pre-purchase building inspection? A pre-purchase building inspection, or property inspection, is an inspection of a property that is undertaken prior to its purchase. The aim of the inspection is to identify any potential …