You’d think real estate agents would enthusiastically applaud government plans to introduce some sorts of subsidies for first home buyers.

Longer-term fixed rate home loans continue to fall, even though Reserve Bank governor Alan Bollard tried, last week, to dampen expectations that a rate cut is imminent.

PSIS has started a trial program using mortgage brokers to sell its home loan products, acting chief executive Peter Mayne confirms.

Almost nobody expects the Reserve Bank to cut interest rates tomorrow when it issues its latest Monetary Policy Statement (MPS), but the smart money is betting rates will fall, if not next month, then by early June.

Deutshce Bank reckons that the housing market has peaked and that the Reserve Bank will cut rates in June and July.

Schemes to loan would-be home-owners 100% of their house purchase seem to be flavour of the month.

The housing market got off to a spanking start in 2003 with both the number of sales and the national median house price rising in January.

The NZ Mortgage Brokers Associotion has taken exception to a Consumers' Institute story about how to save money on your mortgage.

New Zealand’s house prices rose 2.4% in the three months ended December, bringing the 2002 increase to 10.4%, according to provisional data from Quotable Value New Zealand.

New Zealand Mortgage Funds says its latest product has been a hit with brokers.

Kiwibank has admitted its advertising promoting ‘cheaper home loans guaranteed’ was likely to mislead following an investigation by the Commerce Commission.

Jenny Ruth reviews all the latest statistics and concludes that the housing boom looks set to continue.

Jenny Ruth reviews the latest statistics and concludes everything points towards a continued housing boom.

The National Bank has upset brokers by not providing brokers with full information about some of the commissions it pays.

Heaps of new apartments are being built at present,a ccording to the latest stats.