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All the loan types pretty much settled back.
House purchase activity was down a little bit year on year, down around 5% in dollar terms.
So, yep, that was kind of expected too because it did look like there was a bit of sort of a pull forward of activity into December.
Maybe people were trying to lock in some cashbacks there as well.
So, yeah.
you know that house purchase activity for January was was a little bit softer not too bad but kind of had the expected fall switching was actually still you know pretty strong compared to anything other than December you know going back to November or prior there was still a bit of activity there and I'd been into the banks a couple of times over the past few weeks and they did expect
I suppose just a little bit of a tail end of that switching activity.
You know, there was always going to be, I guess, a bit of a lag there with some loans to actually get them drawn down.
So that was always going to be likely.
so there's still a bit of switching going on not as much in december but but still a bit of activity there uh so yeah i mean the different breakdowns interest only lending was kind of ticking along high dti lending sort of ticking along there's there's nothing sort of much of note in there the thing that really jumped out of the different breakdowns was the lvr figures which um we've had an eye on obviously given the lvrs were loosened on the first of december
always going to be some interest in those numbers in the december and january figures and so yeah there's there's a bit of interest in there we saw the share of lending going out to investors at low deposit uh well less than 30 deposit in this case ticked up to about three percent and so only a couple of months ago that had been less than one percent now still not sort of off the charts but you know that's that's the highest number it's been for for a number of years so with that increase in the speed limit and on the first of december
You know, just simply more low deposit finance available for investors.
And also, I guess, with interest rates where they are, you know, some investors definitely keen to take up that finance.
So, yeah, it's ticking up a bit for investors, but also owner occupiers as well.
About 15% of lending to them went out at low deposit.
and less than 20% for owner-occupiers.
Now that's the highest it's been for something about since August 2020.
So yeah, it's just interesting to see it playing out.
You increase those LVR speed limits, people are showing a bit of appetite to take that debt out.
in particular first-time buyers we had a record share of first-time buyers taking out low deposit loans 57 of those of those first-time buyer loans were done at less than 20 equity so um yeah that's that's still a strong way in for first-time buyers is you don't need 20 um people are getting them with 15 maybe 10 i've heard so