{"id":230621,"date":"2026-01-13T05:17:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T05:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/230621\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T05:17:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T05:17:07","slug":"nzs-largest-bank-increases-some-home-loan-interest-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/230621\/","title":{"rendered":"NZ&#8217;s largest bank increases some home loan interest rates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  [&amp;_p]:tit-sub-xl tit-sub-xl md:[&amp;_p]:d-tit-sub-xl md:d-tit-sub-xl mb-[1.3rem]\">ANZ New Zealand has increased its floating and flexible home loan interest rates, in a move the bank says will align with market conditions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The bank&#8217;s floating home rate would go up 10-basis-points to 5.79%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Meanwhile, its flexible home loan rate would increase 10-basis-points to 5.90%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">For existing loans, the changes would be effective on Thursday, January 29.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">For new loans, the changes would take place on Thursday, January 15 for floating home loans, and Thursday, January 29 for flexible home loans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">An ANZ spokesperson said the bank was committed to offering competitive loan rates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;Ahead of the November OCR cut, our floating rate was already below most of the main banks, our new rate remains competitively positioned among the main banks in the market today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The spokesperson said ANZ would continue to review rates as global and local conditions evolved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">ANZ&#8217;s other home loan rates were left unchanged. Last month, ANZ increased <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2025\/12\/15\/nzs-largest-bank-increases-multiple-home-loan-rates\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">several of its fixed-rate home loans<\/a>, which followed similar changes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2025\/12\/09\/major-bank-lifts-longer-term-mortgage-rates\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Westpac made the week prior<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ANZ New Zealand has increased its floating and flexible home loan interest rates, in a move the bank&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[138,111,43,139,69,244],"class_list":{"0":"post-230621","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz","13":"tag-personal-finance"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}