Mortgage Rates Daily Commentary
Thursday 6 August 2026
Taranaki residents plan to try and stop TSB sale - but there's a hitch; ASB hikes rates
Taranaki residents unhappy with the plan to sell TSB Bank to Heartland are hoping to file an injunction to stop it next week - but there's a catch. [READ ON]
ASB is the latest bank to increase fixed rates.
It has increased its fixed home loan rates by between 10-26 bps on its 6-month to three-year terms and has increased term deposit rates by 10-20 bps on its 6-month to two-year terms.
ASB’s Executive General Manager Personal Banking Adam Boyd says “We’re continuing to see volatility in wholesale interest rates, which have climbed over the past month. This has a direct bearing on the rates we offer on lending and deposits, in line with what is happening in markets around the world.”
Home loan market changes
A raft of changes in home loan rates in the past fortnight have changed the shape of the competitive market and the yield curve.
Saturday, May 24th 2008, 5:14PM
Good Returns has started compiling some series of graphs showing how the various groups are positioned against each other.
The three groups we have are:
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Big banks: ANZ, ASB, BNZ, National and Westpac
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Second tier banks: Kiwibank, Bank Direct, Kiwbank and HSBC
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Non-bank lenders: Cairns Lockie, Sovereign, Pioneer, Wizard and PSIS.
The graph below shows the median rates for each of these groups over standard terms.
The key points are that big bank floating rates are significantly higher than the other two groups, while non-bank lenders struggle to compete at the long end of the curve with five year rates.
Recent economic news and competitive activity have "bent" the yield curve and put one and two year rates below longer term rates. Also it shows that the big banks have become very competitive in this space having the lowest median one year rates, while it sits between the other two groups for all the other fixed rate terms.
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