Money Mail 248 - 'Put It On The Mortgage'...Dead In 2024

'Put it on the mortgage'. With lower interest rates and rising house prices, why wouldn’t you? For years, many New Zealanders have tapped into their home equity; borrowing against their property to access cash. Using the house as an ATM is out of favour and now only 11% of 'new' loans were of that type. In 2019 it was almost 20%. Since the data series began a decade ago, mortgage top-ups were the lowest ever in 2024 - and declining during the year.Hey thanks for listening! Please take some form of action from this content, don’t just be a consumer, become a producer! Make sure you’re subscribed to Money Mail via Keepthechange.co.nz to receive our weekly lesson on money and financial literacy. Stay close to us on social media and share this with someone that you think this content will help. Together we can collectively improve the financial literacy of New Zealand - let’s get on with it. Find us here:@keepthechange_nzhttps://www.keepthechange.co.nz/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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