Earlier this week the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released its residential property prices indexes for the March 2017 quarter. A valuable data set from the release relates to the value [...]
The latest housing finance and housing credit data confirm that the level of activity from investors in the housing market is slowing. Australian mortgage lenders have been rationing credit to [...]
The latest housing data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) shows that while lending to owner occupiers is fairly flat, demand from the investor segment has continued to stall. When [...]
Data released by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) earlier this week has shown that high loan to value ratio (LVR) lending continues to fall indicating new buyers are in many [...]
According to the latest housing finance data release for March 2017 there was $33.2 billion in finance commitments over the month. The monthly value of commitments increased by 0.9% to be 5.3% [...]
It seems that lenders were already scaling back their appetite for investment lending as early as January this year, with the value of housing finance commitments for investment purposes falling [...]
On Friday of last week the banking regulator, the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) wrote to all authorised deposit-taking institutions (ADIs) announcing further measures to [...]
Over recent years the level of investor participation in the national housing market has hit historic high levels and at the same time, housing finance commitments to owner occupier first time [...]
Housing finance data for January 2017 was released earlier today by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). The data showed the over the month there was $33.9 billion in housing finance [...]
Housing finance data for December 2016 was released earlier today by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Demand for mortgage finance continues to increase over the month reflective of the [...]
