Let me talk about my mortgage. Although we use examples from your mortgage, I would suggest that your mortgage is similar. My mortgage started in 2005 July, with a regular mortgage company.
Since 2005 July March 2010 we had six interest rate drops and 11 interest rate hikes. Now, something fishy is going on with our home loan. When the Reserve Bank of Australia dropped its rates (six times) and our mortgage company has to comply, they took an average of 11 days to abandon its rule. However, when the RBA increased its rates (11 times) which took an average of 3 days.
So, when it was to their advantage, they were quick smart. However, when it was my family’s advantage (and each of their home loan customers the advantage of one) they were almost four times as long as the action.
Now I am not expert in banking, but they are not just punch the numbers into your computer!
Well, you do not think that it is a lot of money. But let’s pretend the bank in 1000 and each mortgage loan home loan is worth $ 350,000. This means that they owe them $ 350 million.
Assume that they are earning 5% per annum of the money. This means that each year they earn their money in $ 17.5 million, or $ 47,945 per day rate.
If all of a sudden they start to get 4.75% of the $ 350 million, and now they are only earning $ 16,625,000 of cash, or $ 45,547 per day, interest or $ 2,398 less per day.
So, if the bank could not change the interest rates for an additional 9 days, they would have saved myself $ 21,582. Thus, the amount adds up. In addition, if they could do it a few times a year, you must also add the amount of $ 21.582.
However, the bank was only 1,000 mortgage banking clients. However, the big banks in ten of thousands of mortgage customers, perhaps even hundreds of thousands of customers. This is not a small amount of money with many customers.
So who pays for that … mortgage customer! We caught up with the extra interest each year. And although it may be a lot of us individually, as a housing loan customers, adding to the amount and the bucket-load people lending to us.
Do I need from this law … I think so. I think the government should set a time line after RBA move rates of banks to move their rates then. And when I say “Time Line”, I mean the law that states: any interest rate movements must be made within 2 days after the RBA decision.
Is that easy, and can not wait for the banks, 8, 9 or even 12 days to submit their rates. Pass this to your friends and get the word out!
But this is only the first suspicious thing. Let me go back when we took a loan (July 2005).
My interest rate on my loan was 6.76% and the RBA cash rate (mortgage companies to go ‘) was 5.50%. So between my loan rate and the RBA difference was 1.26%.
She stayed at 1.26% margin to March 2008. Then it went to 1.38% difference.
Then, in February 2008 He went to 1.46% of the difference.
Then, in March 2008 went to the 1.64% margin.
Then, in May 2008 went to the 1.74% margin.
Then, in 2008 July went to 1.89% difference.
Then, in November 2008 He went to the 2.33% difference.
This is where it has remained ever since. Thus, although the March 2010 cash rate was 4%, my mortgage was 6.33%. From 2.33% higher amount. However, if I were to get the same difference when we first signed would be at least 1.26%, your home loan interest rate is at 5.26%, 1.07% lower than it is now.
So not only do we have to put up with 11 rising interest rates (compared to six interest-rate decreases), slowly changing the interest rate set your mortgage company, but we also had to put up with our mortgage company the difference by increasing their rates among the Australian central bank and what they are for free!
This tells me that the mortgage companies can do what they want! They made their profits far exceeded their customer service.
If you have an old mortgage statements, check them out. You can find a few surprises over the past few years as well.