Have mortgage rates already bottomed?
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Jonathan Shapiro has penned a piece today in The AFR arguing that home loan rates are heading higher in 2017, particularly for higher loan-to-value ratio borrowers, as global interest rates rise, competition eases, and tighter capital rules bite.
The article quotes Digital Finance Analytic’s Martin North:
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About the author

Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness.
Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.
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