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How Often Should You Review Your Home Loan?

Refinancing isn't the only way to keep your loan working for you — a regular review is what tells you whether refinancing is even worth considering. Here's a realistic periodic for established homeowners, and what a proper review should actually cover.

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Reviewing Your Loan Isn't the Same as Refinancing It

A loan review is simply checking where you stand — your current rate against the market, whether your features still suit you, and whether your structure matches your goals. Refinancing is one possible outcome of that review, not the review itself. Most homeowners skip the review entirely and only think about their loan when something forces the question, like a fixed rate expiring or a rate rise landing in their inbox.

A Realistic Review Periodic

For most established homeowners, an annual check-in is enough to stay on top of things without it becoming a chore. On top of that baseline, a handful of specific triggers should prompt an unscheduled review regardless of when your last one was:

  • It's been two years or more since your last review. Lender pricing shifts over time, and new customer rates are often sharper than what existing borrowers are quietly sitting on.
  • Your fixed term is ending. Fixed loans typically revert to a lender's standard variable rate when the term expires, which is rarely their most competitive offer — this is a hard deadline worth planning around, not reacting to.
  • Interest rates have moved since you last looked. Either direction — a rate rise is an obvious prompt, but a rate cut you haven't received is just as worth checking.
  • Your circumstances have changed. A pay rise, a new dependent, paying off other debt, or a shift in your goals (paying down faster, investing, accessing equity) all change what the "right" loan looks like for you.
  • Your property value has moved significantly. Rising equity can open up better rate tiers or remove the need for Lenders Mortgage Insurance if you're refinancing.

What a Proper Review Actually Covers

A genuine review goes beyond glancing at your interest rate. It's worth checking each of these before deciding whether refinancing is worthwhile:

  • Your current rate against the market — not just the advertised rate, but the comparison rate, since that reflects the true cost including fees.
  • Your offset and redraw arrangement — whether it's still a genuine 100% offset, and whether you're actually using it effectively.
  • Your loan-to-value ratio — built-up equity can open better rate tiers or reduce the need for Lenders Mortgage Insurance.
  • Your loan term and structure — whether it still matches your goals, or whether it's just continued unchanged since you first took it out.
  • Any fees you're currently paying — annual package fees in particular are worth weighing against what you're actually getting from them.

When a Review Is Enough, and When It Points to Refinancing

A genuine review goes beyond glancing at your interest rate. It's worth checking each of these before deciding whether refinancing is worthwhile:

Sometimes a review confirms you're already in a good position, and no action is needed — that's a legitimate and useful outcome, not a wasted exercise.

Other times it surfaces a genuine gap: a rate that's drifted well above market, a structure that no longer fits your goals, or features you don't have that would make a real difference.

That gap is what turns a review into a refinancing conversation. For a full look at what refinancing actually costs and saves once you've identified a gap worth acting on, see the refinancing costs guide and the potential savings breakdown.

Get a Straight Answer on Where You Stand

A proper review takes the guesswork out of whether refinancing is worth pursuing right now, or whether your current loan is still doing its job.

Read the Full Refinancing Guide
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