{"id":390052,"date":"2026-04-21T07:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T07:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/390052\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T07:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T07:22:09","slug":"kiwibank-latest-to-hike-mortgage-rates-from-today-some-terms-raised-by-20-basis-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/390052\/","title":{"rendered":"Kiwibank latest to hike mortgage rates from today, some terms raised by 20 basis points"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kiwibank\u2019s term deposit rates from six months to five years will also move up by as much as 15bps, the largest being its two-year term which jumps from 4.10% to 4.25%.<\/p>\n

Economists are at odds as to when the Reserve Bank (RBNZ) will hike the Official Cash Rate (OCR).<\/p>\n

ANZ and economic consultancy Infometrics are both forecasting three OCR hikes<\/a> this year, starting in July.<\/p>\n

But Infometrics went a step further, with chief forecaster Gareth Kiernan saying \u201cincreases starting in May cannot be ruled out\u201d.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Kiwibank economists have warned that raising interest rates too soon could be \u201creckless\u201d and \u201crisks a repeat of past mistakes, potentially inducing a recession\u201d.<\/p>\n

Instead, they maintain a \u201cwait and see\u201d approach through most of this year.<\/p>\n

Last week, Westpac<\/a> increased some of its home loan rates by up to 14bps.<\/p>\n

Its special one-year term increased 10bps to 4.69% and its 18-month term rose 14bps to 4.99%.<\/p>\n

Earlier, ANZ<\/a> hiked its one-year, 18-month and three to five-year special fixed home loan by 10bps.<\/p>\n

Grant Knuckey, ANZ NZ\u2019s managing director for personal banking, said the adjustments reflected recent moves in wholesale interest rates.<\/p>\n

\u201cSince the fixed rate changes we made in March, wholesale rates have continued to rise across all terms.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kiwibank\u2019s term deposit rates from six months to five years will also move up by as much as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390053,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2327,1396,53669,138,3595,71,24826,16572,95012,700,60724,661,16400,5969,111,139,69,193,44625,2081,7676,544,39545,165,61,1865],"class_list":{"0":"post-390052","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-2327","9":"tag-banks","10":"tag-basis","11":"tag-business","12":"tag-by","13":"tag-from","14":"tag-hike","15":"tag-joined","16":"tag-kiwibank","17":"tag-latest","18":"tag-lifting","19":"tag-major","20":"tag-mortgage","21":"tag-much","22":"tag-new-zealand","23":"tag-newzealand","24":"tag-nz","25":"tag-other","26":"tag-points","27":"tag-raised","28":"tag-rates","29":"tag-some","30":"tag-terms","31":"tag-their","32":"tag-to","33":"tag-today"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390052","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=390052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}