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.
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 Korea desk leads with the Bank of Korea Base Rate, the policy rate set by the Monetary Policy Board, then the US federal funds rate, Japan's policy rate and the ECB deposit facility, with the rest following. The Base Rate is read from the Bank's published change list and shown as a daily step series from 1999. It is the policy anchor for Korean money-market rates, not a retail lending rate.
All desks show the same official series in a different order; the figures do not change with the desk. Values are republished without alteration, and each page names the source and licence. The build publishes no Korean mortgage or deposit rate, because no official series is ingested — that page is absent rather than estimated. This is not financial advice, and readings may lag their source.