Nadine Higgins
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first heard Apr 2026
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So has the next interest rate hiking cycle started already?
And if so, what do you need to know to ensure you and your mortgage are ready for it?
Adam Clark is a mortgage advisor at Squirrel Mortgages, and he's with us on the Prosperity Project.
Hi Adam, welcome to the Prosperity Project.
Why are the banks hiking rates now when the Reserve Bank hasn't done anything yet?
Right.
So this is the market signal.
Expect the interest rates hiking cycle to begin.
Yeah, condom makers even put up their prices because it is, exactly, it's part of that process.
I don't want to go down too deep in economic analysis well with you, but some people might say, aren't those higher prices already putting a squeeze on businesses and households and doing some of the work of slowing things down and avoiding the ability to be able to hike prices?
Why do we need higher interest rates as well?
Yeah, they don't have to worry about unemployment anymore, do they?
Because I guess what some people will remember viscerally from the last interest rate hiking cycle is they went up fast.
And your head was spinning.
If you were sitting on a fixed rate, you were anxious for that to come off so that you could lock something in that wasn't going to be sky high.
But I think what you're saying is you're not expecting that this time around.
So if we know that the next move is up, however many follow that, I guess, who knows, but they've signaled pretty clearly the next move is up.
Yeah.
How are you best to approach that?
So do you think we spend way too much time wringing our hands about trying to get the best possible, you know, the extra five basis points or whatever of our interest rate rather than like what's actually going on in my particular finances?
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