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Lending to households and businesses, Australia, Jun 2019
In seasonally adjusted terms, lending commitments to households rose 1.3% in June 2019, following a 1.6% fall in May. The rise in lending to households was driven by owner occupier dwellings excluding refinancing (up 2.4%) and personal finance excluding refinancing (up 4.9%). In trend terms, lending commitments for owner occupier dwellings excluding refinancing fell 0.1% and investment dwellings excluding refinancing fell 0.9% in June 2019. There were rises in the number of new lending commitments to owner occupier first home buyers (2.1%) and owner occupier non-first home buyers (0.4%), in seasonally adjusted terms. ... (full story)