Reserve Bank of New Zealand

NZ floating first-mortgage new-customer housing rate

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6.07%

+0.25 pp (+4.30%)

As of 31 Jul 2026 | Monthly

Mean
9.35%
Median
8.16%
Min
4.37% 31 May 2021
Max
20.50% 30 Jun 1987
DateRate
31 Jul 20266.07
30 Jun 20265.82
31 May 20265.82
30 Apr 20265.80
31 Mar 20265.81
28 Feb 20265.81
31 Jan 20265.80
31 Dec 20255.77
30 Nov 20255.84
31 Oct 20255.96
30 Sep 20256.29
31 Aug 20256.30
31 Jul 20256.47
30 Jun 20256.47
31 May 20256.60
30 Apr 20256.67
31 Mar 20256.91
28 Feb 20256.92
31 Jan 20257.38
31 Dec 20247.39
30 Nov 20247.73
31 Oct 20247.89
30 Sep 20248.38
31 Aug 20248.38

About this rate

Weighted average of advertised standard floating first-mortgage rates for new housing customers (B3, INR.MBI06.F). Current: 6.07% for 31 Jul 2026. Monthly survey; specials and fixed terms are excluded.

From 29 Feb 1964 to 31 Jul 2026 (750 months): mean 9.35%, median 8.16%; low 4.37% (31 May 2021), high 20.50% (30 Jun 1987). An official benchmark, not a quote for your loan.

Source: RBNZ Retail interest rates (B3), series INR.MBI06.F. Licence: RBNZ statistics terms: republication permitted with attribution to the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (terms). Files: data/raw/hb3.xlsx.

Reading this series

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.

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The India desk leads with the RBI repo rate, read from the BIS central bank policy rate series for India, then US, UK and Japan rates. The repo rate is the rate at which the Reserve Bank of India lends to banks against government securities; the BIS series is the overnight repo rate from 2001 and the Bank Rate before that, stitched into one comparable policy measure and drawn as daily steps. It is a policy rate, not a mortgage or deposit rate.

All desks carry the same series in a different order, so the numbers match the hub. Values are republished with attribution to the BIS, and this page is not an official BIS publication. The build ingests no Indian retail deposit series, so none is shown; gaps are left open rather than estimated. This is not financial advice, and readings may lag their source.