Despite the news of toilet paper outages across the country and the rapid spread of the coronavirus, it would’ve been hard to miss the news that the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) lowered the cash rate from 0.75% to 0.50% on Tuesday.
Last updated: 2:15pm, Friday March 6.
After the RBA moved to reduce official interest rates by 0.25%, UBank announced it will be cutting variable rates in kind, making this the fourth time the online bank has passed on the full rate cut to its customers.
Online lender loans.com.au has announced that it will be taking the axe to variable rate home loans following the Reserve Bank’s decision to reduce the official cash rate from 0.75% to 0.50% at its March meeting yesterday afternoon.
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The RBA has just lowered official interest rates by 0.25%, and online lender Homestar has wasted no time in announcing it will be passing on the full cut. The changes will come into effect April 1 for existing customers, and will be effective immediately for new customers.
Fintech Athena Home Loans has maintained its record as one of the few lenders in Australia to pass on the full 25 basis point RBA cut to its home loan customers for a fourth consecutive time following this afternoon’s Reserve Bank announcement.
Big bank Wesptac has become the first of the big four banks to announce it will be passing on the full 0.25% RBA rate cut on its variable rate owner occupier and investor home loans, effective from March 17 2020.
Ask any first home buyer, and chances are they’ll tell you saving for a 20% deposit is hard work. So much so that for a growing number of young Aussies, ‘rentvesting’ has become the next best thing helping them break into a property market that keeps getting tougher.
The RBA decided to reduce official interest rates today, and mortgage holders the country over are waiting for word on how their banks and lenders will respond. Thankfully, it looks like they won’t have to wait for too long.