*********** UPDATE: Recent Bank Rate Decisions ****************** ANZ hae reduced their mortgage rates by 0.20% today on the 14th December Westpac and St George will drop their variable interest rate by 0.20% effective December 17th Commonwealth Bank (CBA) and NAB announced that they will drop their varibale rates by 0.20% effective December 10th ING Direct Read More
Today the Reserve Bank of Australia announce that they will leave interest rates on hold. I won’t go into the reasons why they decided to leave rates on hold because you can read it on their website. This does not mean to say that some lenders may not change their interest rates. I will keep Read More
Update 12th October 2012: ANZ announces a 0.20% drop in their variable rate 0.05% short of the full rate decrease Rates announces by AMP, Bank West, Bank of Melbourne and Bendigo Bank. Adelaide bank will not pass on the rate cut until the 26th October making their customers pay the higher interest rate for 24 Read More
UPDATE: ING reduce interest rates by 0.20% and ANZ just announced rates reduced by 0.25%, NAB by 0.21% and Commonwealth Bank 0.21%. Check below for latest updates The Reserve Bank of Australia announced a 0.25% official interest rate cut, down to 3.50%. We will have to wait and see how the major banks; Commonwealth Bank, Read More
Update 14th May: ANZ reduce rates by 0.37% and AMP by 0.35%. We will also include their increase or 0.06% mid last month resulting in a net decrease of 0.31% Update 4th May: Bank West reduce rates by 0.32%. and Westpac by 0.37%. More below Update 3rd May: ING reduce rates by 0.30%. See other Read More
Bank of Queensland (BOQ) gave us the first indication that the Banks will not pass on the full interest rate cut after the Reserve Bank of Australia cut interest rates by 0.5%. BOQ announced yesterday that they will only be passing on 0.35% of the 0.50% stating the usually higher costs of funding. ANZ will make their Read More