How Do We Know That Mortgage Arrears Are Now Rising In Australia?

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Jul 19 2024 | 00:21:52

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Show Notes

The latest RBA bulletin, just released, contained a couple of significant articles relating to mortgage arrears and serviceability. The first, “Recent Drivers of Housing Loan Arrears” shows that Housing loan arrears rates have increased from low levels since late 2022, with banks expecting them to rise a bit further from here. High LVR and DTI loans are most at risk. No surprise there. The second, “How the RBA Uses the Securitisation Dataset to Assess Financial Stability Risks from Mortgage Lending” makes the point that the data used relating to around one third of loans, contains lags of up to 2 […]

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