As expected, Reserve Bank governor Don Brash left the official cash rate (OCR) unchanged at 5.75%, acknowledging both the strength of the domestic economy and the worsening outlook for the global economy.

Key Law, a cut rate conveyancing joint venture between ANZ Bank, the Public Trust and Key Law principal Philip Alexander-Crawford, is being wound up after just a year.

While mortgage brokers debate the merits or otherwise of formal regulation of their industry, the major mortgage lending banks say they are increasingly acting as regulators by being choosey as to which brokers they deal with.

Mortgagenet principal Kieran Trass has branched out into the mortgage refinancing segment of the market with the attention-grabbing brand name Banxrobber.

House building activity is increasing, but off a low base, the latest building consent figures from Statistics New Zealand show.

Mortgage Brokers Association chairman Rob Tucker says he defies anyone to read the association’s code of conduct and its constitution and then say its standards aren’t high enough.

You could be forgiven for seeing worrying signs in the entrails of the latest Real Estate Institute housing sales figures and prices.

A Nelson-based mortgage broker and two finance companies are the latest to team up to offer home loans to people the banks won’t look at.

National home affordability improved for the third consecutive quarter and, for the first time in more than two years, all regions of New Zealand showed an improvement.

Phantom bidding at house auctions hit the headlines across the ditch last week when a Melbourne magistrate slammed the practice as "evil, deceitful and misleading."

New Zealanders’ appetite for debt, mostly put to use in buying property, seems to have at last abated after a decade of giddy growth, according to the Reserve Bank.

Reserve Bank Governor Don Brash left the official cash rate (OCR) unchanged at 5.75% this morning as most economists had expected.

Has New Zealand’s interest rate market fundamentally changed and does that mean attitudes towards floating versus fixed rates should change as well?

Most economists are expecting Reserve Bank governor Don Brash to keep interest rates steady on Wednesday when he reviews the official cash rate (OCR), even though the economy didn't grow last quarter.

An Auckland-based mortgage broking firm has just significantly undercut the market with a one-year fixed rate of 6.45%.

Cairns Lockie explains three major problems with a housing tax.