Home Loans & Mortgages

A recovering jobs market could be the trigger an interest-rate rise next month, or use tightening credit standards to curb housing demand.

Home loan fact: Last year Wespac snared approaching 30% of all home loan mortgages in Australia. That’s an outstanding volume by any measure. And now it wants to profit on that “in the bank” business .

Reserve Bank of Australia [RBA] raised mortgage interest rates by 25 basis points to bring the official cash interest rate to 4.0 percent The Reserve Bank of Australia raised mortgage interest rates by 25 basis points to bring the official cash rate to 4.0 percent pa.

Mortgage Rates: RBA may lift rates next month, if not then August As the impact of rising fuel prices and the devastation of the floods hit Australian inflation, major banks are shifting their forecasts for the next official interest rate rise to next month. Inflation will hit interest rates The Reserve Bank of Australia tries [...]

The major banks will have to raise mortgage interest rates, without the Reserve Bank moving rates sooner or later, and the RBA knows this.
The RBA can now sit back and watch the major banks squirm, knowing they’re under pressure to raise rates. This tension will create more uncertainty of a rate rise in November and by then the banks will have to move on mortgage rates even if the RBA sits on its hands. Result? The RBA can leave interest rates as is because the major banks will do its job for them.That is, if cooling the housing marking further is one of its aims.