Former Loan Market executive Geoff Allen has joined non-bank lender First Mortgage Trust in a business development role.

KiwiSaver provider Kōura Wealth, which launched as a roboadvice service, has now has called on financial advisers for help.

In spite of the Government’s efforts to knock back expectations of continuing house price rises, the latest ASB Housing Confidence Survey shows Kiwis have only shown a slight wobble.

A new report from ASB suggests homeowners may be better off fixing mortgages at short terms over the next five years.

Mortgage lending fell by $2 billion month-on-month in April as the Government's housing reforms began to cool the market. 

Economists noted a "tentative shift in tone" from the Reserve Bank as it projected that interest rates may begin to rise from 2022.

The Reserve Bank has kept the official cash rate at its record low of 0.25%. Here's what the central bank said:

Mortgage borrowers could be better off locking in long-term loans ahead of potential increases in the official cash rate in 2022, according to economists at ANZ. 

Living in a caravan at Nelson’s Spirit of Nature commune has been cold comfort for a man embroiled in a spat with his landlord over whether a tenancy agreement exists.

Houses sold in the first quarter of this year made their owners a median gain of $315,000 up from $291,000 in the last three months of 2020.

The Financial Markets (Conduct of Institutions) Amendment Bill is set to reform the way banks pay commission to mortgage advisers, with sales and volume based incentives set to be outlawed. Here's what advisers need to know.

A woman’s fear of men and a neighbouring tenant’s intimidating behaviour making her feeling unsafe in her home has led to the landlord paying her $827 in compensation.