New Zealand's biggest bank says house prices should lift more meaningfully over the second half of this year, but values are likely to only rise 4.5 percent in 2025, not the 6 percent it previously ...

ASB and Westpac have followed the lead of the country’s largest home lender ANZ NZ which cut its mortgage test rate by 15 basis points last Wednesday, a week before the Reserve Bank trimmed the OCR.