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Thinking of fixing your home loan interest rate?

With most mortgage interest rate crystal gazers, Mr Mortgage included, expecting the RBA to increase the cash rate by 0.5% this this year, it might be tempting to think about fixed interest rate.

The two things against this are that we have seen base rates rise by nearly 2% since the GFC, and that was the time to fix. The other reason this might be a bad idea is that the RBA talks about rate rises a lot more than it actually raises the cash rate.
The motives for raising interest rates are skimpy.

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