The weather is changing, the flowers are flourishing, the birds are singing, the sun is putting the spring back into our step. Will this help revitalise the wilting real estate market?

For years now mortgage brokers have debated the subject surrounding charging a fee as opposed to being paid a commission from the lender. Naturally such a radical change is fraught with resistance, but it may be something that in time will be imposed on the industry as main stream lenders opt for

Wellington, Aug 10 NZPA - Kiwibank, National Bank and BNZ are the latest banks to lift their floating mortgage rates and cut longer term fixed rates after the Reserve Bank hiked the official cash rate by 25 percentage points to 3 percent last month.

With the changes to ING over the last few months - it is now 100 per cent owned by ANZ which also owns National Bank - it is interesting to read each of their KiwiSaver investment statements one after the other.  

Wellington, July 1 NZPA - State-owned Kiwibank has triggered a new battle in the home loan market with ANZ National Bank moving quickly to cut fixed lending rates after Kiwibank cut its two-year fixed home loan rate.

Wellington, June 25 NZPA - Tower Insurance Ltd said a Court of Appeal decision has confirmed its right to renew policies sold through ANZ and National Bank. The decision upholds Justice Edwin Wylie's High Court decision of March 11.

Wellington, June 21 NZPA - ANZ National Bank, Kiwibank and Westpac are increasing some mortgage rates after the Reserve Bank of New Zealand hiked the official cash rate by 25 basis points to 2.75 percent earlier this month.

Wellington, June 21 NZPA - ANZ National Bank and Kiwibank are increasing some mortgage rates after the Reserve Bank of New Zealand hiked the official cash rate by 25 basis points to 2.75 percent earlier this month.

Wellington, June 21 NZPA - ANZ National Bank has increased its variable, six month and one year mortgage rates after the Reserve Bank of New Zealand hiked the official cash rate by 25 basis points to 2.75 percent earlier this month.

Wellington, June 1 NZPA - The New Zealand dollar made up a little of the ground lost overnight, undoing some of the effect of a warning from China that the global economy remained vulnerable to sovereign debt risks.