Three rate cuts since February have spurred home owners to take a closer look at their home loan. Turns out plenty have found a loan better suited to their needs elsewhere, with 100,000 home loans refinanced in the past quarter.
It’s not every day we do a double-take looking at lending numbers.
But it happened this week, with the latest ABS data revealing an astonishing 1.26 million home loans have been refinanced over the past three years.
A rise in refinancing kicked off when the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) hiked rates across 2022 and 2023.
Now that rates are on the way down, home owners are just as eager to switch.
Almost 100,000 mortgages were refinanced in the June 2025 quarter. That’s just over 1,000 home loans daily – the highest level since September 2023.
Here’s why Australians are refinancing in such large numbers.
The RBA has handed home owners savings on a platter in recent times, with three rate cuts totalling 0.75% so far this year.
But home owners hungry for more have the potential to unlock extra savings.
Canstar has crunched the numbers, finding that a borrower with a $600,000 loan could save more than $12,000 over the next two years by switching to a lower-rate loan.
This assumes the borrower hasn’t renegotiated their rate in the last three years. But that’s not unreasonable.
Meanwhile, a Finder survey shows more than one-in-two home owners have no idea what rate they’re currently paying.
Refinancing may offer more than rate savings.
Switching to a new loan could be an opportunity to tap into the equity built up in your home. And you could have a lot more equity than you realise.
Home values nationally have risen 45% in the last five years, and are 65% higher than they were a decade ago.
So if you need funds for a variety of purposes – from renovating your home, to paying for the kids’ education, to investing in a rental property – refinancing may offer a lower-rate solution.
Switching to a new home loan may also be a chance to access improved loan features.
Maybe you’re keen to take advantage of an offset account or split your loan between fixed and variable rates.
If your current loan doesn’t offer these or other features such as a redraw facility, it could be worth looking into refinancing.
More than a hundred thousand families have benefited from refinancing in the last quarter alone.
The longer you put it off, the longer you may keep paying your old rate.
Contact us today and we’ll help you get the ball rolling.
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Paul da Silva
Director & Senior Mortgage Advisor
