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Join Date: Jan 2021
Location: Australia
Watch: Panerai PAM687
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Banks are also wary of allowing you to fix your Mortgage Rate if your Loan to Value Ratio (LVR) is above 80% Interest Rates have been below 2% here (from most of the major lenders) for a little over 3 years, so I really should have fixed my rate back in 2020, but it would have come with a (roughly) 1.2% premium over the variable rate at the time (roughly 2% variable vs 3.2% fixed) Dollar for Dollar, I was better off riding the low variable rate for as long as i did What sucks now is as rates are starting to rise, with no one knowing how high they will go, banks are setting their 5 year fixed rates at 2%-3% higher than the current variable rate so they can try to stay ahead of the rate rises over the next few years. You also need your LVR to be below 80% if you decide to go with this option, which is hard for a lot of people because property values decrease as the interest rate rises, so people who could have fixed their rates a year ago may not be able to now even if they want to pay the premium It a bit of a sh!t show, really, but i'm luckier than most, it just means i might have to wait 18 months between 5 figure watch purchases rather than 12 A few of my mates are running reasonably close to the wire, if the rates jump another 1%, they're in trouble
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