Lender Spotlight – Check out some recent residential lending stats from APRA

June 5th, 2017

APRA has announced residential lending exceeded $1.5 Trillion in the first quarter of 2017 (an annual increase of 7.7%).

• Owner-Occupier loans accounted for 65.1%.
• Investment loans accounted for 34.9%.
• Interest-Only loans accounted for 36.9% of all loans (down by 3.6%).
• Loans with an LVR greater than 90% represented 8% (down by 12%).
  

Source: Australian Broker 31.5.2017. (Data as at March 31, 2017. Increases and decreases based on data from the same time period in 2016)