June Finance Data – ABS

The ABS published their June lending data today, covering commercial, housing and other lending categories. Owner occupied housing rose 1.8% in seasonally adjusted terms, Personal finance fell 1.8% and commercial lending rose by 12.1% in June after a fall of 5.9% in May.

AllLendingJune-2014Looking at housing lending, investment lending remains significant (though in percentage terms it fell slightly this month). This is on a seasonally adjusted basis.

HousingLendingJune-2014Investment lending accounted for 38% of all housing including refinance, and unsecured.

InvestmentPCJune2014Looking more narrowly, the proportion of investment loans written remains close to record, at 46.3% of loans, the all time record is 46.8% (May 2014). This is calculated by removing refinance and unsecured lending.

InvestmentTrendJune2014

Author: Martin North

Martin North is the Principal of Digital Finance Analytics

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