{"id":980430,"date":"2023-02-03T00:45:12","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T00:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelwest.com.au\/?p=359045"},"modified":"2023-02-03T00:45:12","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T00:45:12","slug":"borrowers-continue-to-switch-lenders-seeking-low-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/02\/03\/borrowers-continue-to-switch-lenders-seeking-low-rates\/","title":{"rendered":"Borrowers continue to switch lenders seeking low rates"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/8a44c24d-6ebf-47eb-b38e-50625f0b4803.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin-bottom: 15px;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/8a44c24d-6ebf-47eb-b38e-50625f0b4803.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/8a44c24d-6ebf-47eb-b38e-50625f0b4803-980x551.jpg 980w, https:\/\/michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/8a44c24d-6ebf-47eb-b38e-50625f0b4803-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1280px, 100vw\" \/><\/div>Interest rate hikes are continuing to bite with large numbers of home mortgage holders seeking to refinance as a buffer. The Australian Bureau of Statistics reported the total value of housing loan refinancing between lenders fell 1.5 per cent but remained high at $19.1 billion in December. Refinancing levels for owner-occupiers hit $13 billion in [&#8230;]\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelwest.com.au\/borrowers-continue-to-switch-lenders-seeking-low-rates\/\">Michael West<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interest rate hikes are continuing to bite with large numbers of home mortgage holders seeking to refinance as a buffer. The Australian Bureau of Statistics reported the total value of housing loan refinancing between lenders fell 1.5 per cent but rema&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13691,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980430"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13691"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=980430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":980431,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980430\/revisions\/980431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=980430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=980430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=980430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}