Westpac raises fixed home loan rates for third consecutive month

By Tom Watson · · 2 min read
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Westpac has become the latest in a string of mortgage lenders to hike interest rates on a number of its fixed home loans - the third time the major bank has lifted fixed rates in 2022.

Coming into effect this morning, interest rates on the bank’s Fixed Options Home Loan and Fixed Options Home Loan (Premier Advantage Package) are now between 15 and 30 basis points higher for new owner occupier and investor customers.

That means that the lowest advertised fixed home loan rates currently available for an owner occupier (80% LVR) with Westpac are as follows:

  • 1-year: 2.79% p.a. (3.66% p.a. comparison rate*) with the Fixed Options (Package)
  • 2-year: 2.99% p.a. (3.66% p.a. comparison rate*) with the Fixed Options (Package)
  • 3-year: 3.54% p.a. (3.77% p.a. comparison rate*) with the Fixed Options (Package)
  • 4-year: 3.79% p.a. (3.87% p.a. comparison rate*) with the Fixed Options (Package)
  • 5-year: 4.09% p.a. (4.03% p.a. comparison rate*) with the Fixed Options (Package)

Westpac are hardly alone in ramping up rates on fixed home loans though. Of the 90 lenders currently being tracked in the Mozo database, 62 have increased some or all of their fixed rates since the start of February - several of which have made multiple hikes.

And fellow major banks ANZ, Commonwealth Bank and NAB are among that group of lenders who have raised rates - the former two having done so twice in the last month.

Unsurprisingly, the impact of these recent changes on the average fixed mortgage rates in the Mozo database has been significant - particularly on the longer fixed terms (3, 4 and 5-years).

 

In fact, as the graph above shows, fixed rates on those longer terms are now roughly the same as they were two years ago. And with no indication that the current upswing is losing steam - at least, for now - the question remains: how high will fixed rates go?

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Last updated 20 September 2024 Important disclosures and comparison rate warning*

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