5609.0 - Housing Finance, Australia, May 2018 Quality Declaration
ARCHIVED ISSUE Released at 11:30 AM (CANBERRA TIME) 11/07/2018
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MAY KEY POINTS VALUE OF DWELLING COMMITMENTS May 2018 compared with April 2018:
NUMBER OF DWELLING COMMITMENTS May 2018 compared with April 2018:
NOTES FORTHCOMING ISSUES
IMPORTANT QUALITY NOTICE: FIRST HOME BUYERS NUMBERS The number of first home buyer commitments as a percentage of total owner occupied housing finance commitments recorded strong growth from July 2017 to November 2017. The increase has been driven mainly by changes to first home buyer incentive programs in New South Wales and Victoria. The ABS is working with APRA and the financial institutions to establish the size of the increase in first home buyer lending and improve the quality of first home buyer statistics more broadly. These numbers may be revised and users should take care when interpreting ABS first home buyer statistics. FORTHCOMING CHANGES Upcoming release of the new, streamlined monthly finance publication, Lending to Households and Businesses, Australia (5601.0) The ABS is combining Housing Finance, Australia (5609.0) and Lending Finance, Australia (5671.0) into a single, simpler publication called Lending to Households and Businesses, Australia (5601.0). An information paper which outlines the forthcoming changes in more detail and format of the new publication, as well as historical data in the new table structures, will be released no less than one month prior to release of the new publication. Some of the data currently published in the two publications will no longer be published in the new consolidated publication, however, some existing outputs will be further disaggregated. New analytical series will also be added with the inclusion of seasonally adjusted and trend estimates for more data items. REVISIONS In this issue, revisions have been made to the original series as a result of improved reporting of survey and administrative data. These revisions have affected the following series:
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