I just called BNZ to confirm - there’s no option available today to make a transfer to pay down my variable home loan. Is this feature coming soon?
The whole reason I have a variable facility (and a higher interest rate on this portion) is so I can be ‘good with money’ and pay it down faster.
Pretty sure every other NZ bank has this feature. My feedback would be that to me it feels a bit anti-consumer - i.e. there’s a barrier to paying off my home loan faster where I need to call and wait on hold and be transferred around in order to make a transfer (when I can do this in seconds via mobile app at other banks).
I found a couple of old threads from 2016 where this feature was mentioned to be coming… is it almost ready now?
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That’s insane! Why can one NOT make an extra payment on a floating term loan? I can understand on fixed term loans but floating? Somebody please, get your heads out of you know where and implement this. Like yesterday.
And, having worked closely with technology experts I do not believe this would take considerable time to implement. Should be doable and up and running within 14 days.