{"id":461,"date":"2012-10-23T13:05:16","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T01:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/colinrealestate.blogtown.co.nz\/?p=461"},"modified":"2012-10-23T13:05:16","modified_gmt":"2012-10-23T01:05:16","slug":"if-i-were-a-borrower-what-whould-i-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colinrealestate.blogtown.co.nz\/?p=461","title":{"rendered":"IF I WERE A BORROWER, WHAT WHOULD I DO?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Alexander provides his recommendations in relation to borrowing in the current market:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would fix for two years at 5.4% with some of my mortgage left at the floating rate of 5.74%.  <\/p>\n<p>I would do this because the two year fixed rate is nicely below the floating rate.<\/p>\n<p>The chances of the floating rate falling near 0.4% in the next few months to reach the current two year rate are fairly slim \u2013 unless the world economy collapses or the NZD shoots soon to US 90 cents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Tony Alexander, BNZ Chief Economist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Alexander provides his recommendations in relation to borrowing in the current market: \u201cI would fix for two years at 5.4% with some of my mortgage left at the floating rate of 5.74%. I would do this because the two year fixed rate is nicely below the floating rate. The chances of the floating rate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"slim_seo":{"title":"IF I WERE A BORROWER, WHAT WHOULD I DO? - colinrealestate","description":"Tony Alexander provides his recommendations in relation to borrowing in the current market: \u201cI would fix for two years at 5.4% with some of my mortgage left at"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[5532],"tags":[5533],"class_list":["post-461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-real-estate-2","tag-real-estate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinrealestate.blogtown.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinrealestate.blogtown.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinrealestate.blogtown.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinrealestate.blogtown.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1116"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinrealestate.blogtown.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/colinrealestate.blogtown.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":462,"href":"https:\/\/colinrealestate.blogtown.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions\/462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinrealestate.blogtown.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinrealestate.blogtown.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinrealestate.blogtown.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}