St.George cuts variable home loan interest rates

St.George today announced a range of mortgage rate decreases for variable home loan customers, including a reduction of .20% per annum (p.a) for owner occupier customers and a reduction of .30% p.a. for investor customers with interest only repayments.

The following interest rate changes will come into effect on Tuesday 16 July 2019.

  • Variable home loan (owner occupier) rate has been reduced by .20% p.a. to 4.96% p.a. for customers with principal and interest repayments.
  • Variable residential investment property loan reduced by .20% p.a. to 5.52% p.a. for customers with principal and interest repayments.
  • Variable home loan (owner occupier) rate reduced by .20% p.a. to 5.55% p.a. for customers with interest only repayments.
  • Variable residential investment property loan rate reduced by .30% p.a. to 5.81% p.a. for customers with interest only repayments.

For an owner-occupier customer with a standard variable home loan of $400,000 on principal and interest repayments, the .20% p.a. rate reduction will result in a saving of $800 each year.

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