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23 March 2020

Managing your mortgage through the COVID-19 crisis

Squirrel's CEO John Bolton shared some practical advice for homeowners, and how to keep up with mortgage repayments when hit by financial hardship, in a time like this.

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20 March 2020

End of week rate roundup

Kiwibank and ANZ are the first to respond to the slashed OCR (earlier this week) which went from 1% to 0.25%. Here's the latest.

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18 March 2020

Post OCR slash: mortgage rate update

It's been two days since the emergency OCR cut, which saw our already low rate go from 1% to 0.25%. So how does this translate into mortgage rates?

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16 March 2020

Emergency OCR cut

The Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) announced early this morning that a 0.75% cut has been enforced. This takes our already low Official Cash Rate (OCR) of 1% down to 0.25% and will likely remain this low for at least 12 months.

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