Home buyers can expect mortgage interest rates to start rising by the middle of next year and be 3 per cent higher in 18 months, economists say....

The Reserve Bank considers margins being paid on floating rate mortgages are unusually high, and also thinks the bottom of the housing market has yet to be reached. ...

The Reserve Bank has dropped official interest rates to a new low of 2.5 percent and is promising low rates at least till the end of next year....