The pain keeps coming as the Reserve Bank raises interest rates for the TENTH straight month: Here’s how much it will cost homeowners – as the astonishing toll hikes on the average family budget come to light
- The Reserve Bank of Australia raised the cash rate to 3.6 percent
- Tenth consecutive monthly increase since May 2022
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The Reserve Bank has raised interest rates for the 10th month in a row, pushing cash interest rates to an 11-year high of 3.6 percent.
A borrower with an average $600,000 mortgage will see their monthly payments increase by another $93 to $3,377, a 46 percent increase from the $2,306 level of early May 2022, when RBA rates were still at a record low of 0.1 percent.
Annual repayments are now $12,852 higher than just 10 months ago.
Governor Philip Lowe has strongly hinted that this latest rate hike would be far from the last with the 32-year high inflation rate of 7.8 percent, well above the Reserve Bank’s target of 2 to 3 percent.
“The board expects that further monetary policy tightening will be necessary to ensure that inflation returns to target and that this period of high inflation is only temporary,” he said.
The Reserve Bank has raised interest rates for the 10th month in a row, pushing cash rates to an 11-year high of 3.6 percent
Westpac, ANZ and NAB expect the Reserve Bank to raise interest rates again in April and May, bringing the cash rate to 4.1 percent.
This would increase amortizations on an average $600,000 mortgage by another $283 to $3,567, with this increase based on the existing variable mortgage rate before the banks pass the final RBA increase.
The 3.5 percentage point rate hikes since May last year marked the most severe pace of monetary policy tightening since the Reserve Bank first issued a target rate for cash in 1990.
Governor Philip Lowe has strongly hinted that this latest rate hike would be far from the last with the 32-year high inflation rate of 7.8 percent well above the Reserve Bank’s target of 2 to 3 percent.
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