Published Nov 09, 2018 13:56
Lending activity continued to fall in September
Originally published by Housing Industry Australia
“The slide in home lending activity in September has taken the number of loans to owner-occupiers down to the lowest level that we’ve seen since 2013,” said HIA Acting Principal Economist, Geordan Murray.
ABS housing finance figures for the month of September 2018 show broad weakness:
“Last month we noted that investor lending activity had dropped back to 2013 levels but now owner-occupiers lending has followed suit,” said Mr Murray.
“The comparison to 2013 is important. This was the point in time when the recovery in the housing market begun. We are seeing lending activity for both new and established homes softening.
“The housing cycle has most definitely progressed into a contractionary phase and the shift in sentiment would typically see a drop in demand for new loans. In context of the more restrictive lending environment that homebuyers now face, it is clear that the soft lending numbers are as much to do with would-be home buyers having greater difficulty accessing finance as it is about sentiment.
“At this juncture it will be important for the regulators to monitor the impact of their earlier interventions to ensure that policy settings remain appropriate in the new phase of the cycle,” concluded Mr Murray.
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