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BOQ | Special | Owner Occupied | LVR ≤80% | Fixed for 3 years
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Up to $2,000 when you refinance with a BOQ home loan. 
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$2,074 Glossary
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$2,119 Glossary
ANZ | Owner Occupied | LVR ≤80% | Fixed for 3 years
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Up to $2,000 when you refinance with an ANZ home loan. 
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$2,233 Glossary
Westpac | Premier Advantage Options Home Loan | Owner Occupied | LVR 70-80% | Fixed for 3 years
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$2,256 Glossary

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What type of home loans are there?

There’s more to buying a home than just choosing the right property — there’s also the matter of how to structure your loan, which will likely dictate how you make your repayments for years to come. As a buyer, one potential option would be to fix your new home loan rate for three years, and if you’re pondering this, we’ll consider the pros and cons, and some other key questions around fixed rate home loans.

When you purchase a new property and take out a home loan, there are generally three categories to choose from:

  • Fixed rate home loans: This option means that you will lock in or ‘fix’ your home loan for a set period of time, during which time your interest payments will not change.
  • Variable rate home loans: This option means that your home loan rate will be changeable, and your interest payments could fluctuate up and down.
  • Split home loans: This option means combining a fixed rate with a variable one, and splitting the percentages in a way that’s appropriate for your needs.

If you want to lock in a steady interest rate for the first few years of your mortgage, then one option might be to choose a three-year fixed rate home loan. You can also use the comparison table at the top of the page to compare current home loans on the market from our online partners.

Frequently Asked Questions about 3-Year Fixed Home Loans

A three-year fixed rate home loan is one in which the interest rate you’ll pay is locked in place or ‘fixed’ for a period of three years, usually from the start of the loan. This means that throughout this entire three-year period, your required repayments will remain consistent, rather than potentially fluctuating up or down as they might with a variable rate.

There can be a number of possible benefits you could see from locking in an interest rate, whether you choose to do it for three years or another length of time. These include:

  • a sense of certainty in your repayments. With a three-year fixed rate, your repayments will remain the same from month to month for the whole period, meaning you won’t get any surprises if interest rates go up, and you’ll be able to budget for your other needs and expenses knowing exactly how much your mortgage will cost. In addition to the interest rate, it may be a good idea to consider the comparison rate in working out what you may be able to afford in repayments.
  • the potential to save money on fees and charges. Variable rate loans come with added features like offset accounts and redraw facilities, and while these features are useful, they can make a loan more expensive. If you don’t fancy the bells and whistles or feel like you could do without them, fixing your loan could mean you pay less in fees and charges.

If you want the security of locking in a favourable interest rate for three years, there are a number of potential trade-offs you might have to make. These include:

  • fewer features. If you would like to use your home loan account as an everyday banking account, or maintain a redraw balance to help lower your interest rate, then you typically won’t be able to do this on a fixed rate loan, as these features are typically only available with variable rate home loans. If you do want to have features like these on a fixed rate loan, you may need to pay additional fees to access them, depending on your lender.
  • the potential to miss out on a lower interest rate. When you lock your rate in, your repayments will not change if interest rates rise, but you will also not benefit if interest rates fall.
  • an inability to make additional repayments. One feature common to variable rate home loans is the ability to make additional repayments above and beyond what you owe each month, in order to bring down the balance of the loan. Fixed rate loans generally do not allow this, meaning you cannot usually do much to bring down the balance of your loan faster. However, this can vary depending on your lender and home loan product.

Depending on the terms and conditions of a fixed home loan, it may be possible to break it before the loan term is up. Whether you want to refinance your loan to take advantage of a better rate, are selling your house or if circumstances have changed, you may be able to get out of a fixed rate loan, but it could be expensive.

Explore further: Breaking a fixed-rate home loan: What are break costs?

If your contract allows you to exit from your loan early, it’s likely that you will be charged a ‘break cost’ or a ‘break fee’. Lenders charge this amount as a form of compensation for lost profits that they may face as a result of borrowers breaking loans. While there is no set amount for break fees, they generally take into account the fixed interest rate (relative to current interest rates), the amount of time left on the loan, and the amount of the loan itself.

There is a good deal of flexibility in how long you can fix a home loan – lenders will typically allow you to do it for a shorter period of one, two or three years, or a longer one of up to five or even 10 years. The length of time you choose to lock in your interest rate will ultimately be a matter of discussion between you and your lender, considering what they are willing to offer and how long you want to lock your rate in for.

If you are considering locking in your home loan interest rate for three years, it is important to keep in mind that the interest rate will be set on the day you settle on the property, not the date you applied. Interest rates could fluctuate in this period, so you could theoretically end up locked in at a different rate than the one you were anticipating for the three-year term.

There are ways around this, however. If you want the certainty of fixing the exact rate you want, some lenders will offer you the ability to lock in a rate before settlement, but you may be asked to pay a lock-in fee to guarantee it, and the availability of this feature will depend on the individual lender and the home loan product you apply for.

Generally speaking, when a three-year fixed term (or any fixed term) ends, you will have several options. You could:

  • revert to a variable rate for the remainder of your home loan
  • refinance with your current lender to lock in a new fixed rate, or even a split rate home loan, with a fixed and variable component
  • refinance your loan with a new lender, choosing either a fixed or variable rate, or a split rate combining the two.

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Alasdair Duncan, Senior Finance Journalist

Alasdair Duncan
Alasdair Duncan is a Senior Finance Journalist at Canstar, specialising in home loans, property and lifestyle topics. He has written more than 200 articles for Canstar and his work is widely referenced by other publishers and media outlets, including Yahoo FinanceThe New DailyThe Motley Fool and Sky News. He has featured as a guest author for property website homely.com.au. In his more than 15 years working in the media, Alasdair has written for a broad range of publications. Before joining Canstar, he was a News Editor at Pedestrian.TV, part of Australia’s leading youth media group. His work has also appeared on ABC News, Junkee, Rolling Stone, Kotaku, the Sydney Star Observer and The Brag. He has a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) and a Bachelor of Arts with a major in Journalism from the University of Queensland. When he is not writing about finance for Canstar, Alasdair can probably be found at the beach with his two dogs or listening to podcasts about pop music. You can follow Alasdair on LinkedIn and Twitter.

Joshua Sale, Group Manager, Research & Ratings

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Joshua Sale is responsible for developing the methodology and delivering Canstar’s flagship Star Ratings, as part of Canstar’s Research Team. With tertiary qualifications in economics and finance, he enjoys helping Australians find more suitable financial products by transforming complex calculations into a consumer-friendly Star Rating that explains the values and benefits of different financial products. As one of Canstar’s company spokespeople, Joshua is confident participating in print, radio and broadcast journalism interviews. He has participated in interviews with the Australian Financial Review, news.com.au and Money Magazine, along with other leading media outlets, discussing topics such as home loan equity, banking incentive schemes, digital wallets and wider finance trends. You can follow Joshua on LinkedIn. Have a media enquiry, and interested in featuring Joshua as a financial expert and commentator? Contact Canstar’s Media Team today.

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