Weighted average of advertised standard floating first-mortgage rates for new housing customers (B3, INR.MBI06.F). Current: 6.07% for Jul 31, 2026. Monthly survey; specials and fixed terms are excluded.
From Feb 29, 1964 to Jul 31, 2026 (750 months): mean 9.35%, median 8.16%; low 4.37% (May 31, 2021), high 20.50% (Jun 30, 1987). An official benchmark, not a quote for your loan.
New Zealand's floating first-mortgage rate is a retail lending benchmark, not a policy rate. The figure comes from the Reserve Bank's B3 retail interest-rate survey, series INR.MBI06.F, and is a weighted average of the advertised standard floating rates offered to new housing customers. It is compiled monthly, so the headline is the latest survey month rather than a live quote, and advertised specials, fixed terms and discounts negotiated with individual borrowers are excluded. A central-bank survey average is a reference for the market, not an offer you can accept.
The chart plots the monthly survey history; the table repeats it as numbers in reverse order. The "versus the previous reading" line compares the latest month with the month before, and the mean, median, low and high describe the whole run shown. Range buttons shorten the window without recalculating anything, and Chart and Table are two views of one series. Because this is a survey average, it trails changes in wholesale funding costs and the OCR, and it can move when banks reprice rather than when the official rate changes.
About this desk
The Canada desk leads with the Bank of Canada's target for the overnight rate, then CORRA, the Canadian Overnight Repo Rate Average. US, UK and other official rates follow in the menu. The target is a policy setting the Bank changes at fixed announcement dates; CORRA is a market benchmark calculated from repo transactions and published, not set, by the Bank. Keeping both on one desk shows the policy rate and the market rate it steers.
All series are read from official files and republished without alteration. As on the US desk, Canadian dates are written month-first. The build covers two Canadian series only; it does not publish a Canadian mortgage or deposit rate because none is ingested. Every desk shows the same set in a different order, so the numbers are identical whichever desk you use. Nothing here is financial advice.