FEBRUARY KEY FIGURES

		Jan 2018	Feb 2018	Jan 2018 to Feb 2018
		$m	$m	% change
TREND ESTIMATES
	Housing finance for owner occupation(a)	21 249	21 337	0.4
	Personal finance	6 289	6 282	-0.1
	Commercial finance	42 889	42 986	0.2
	Lease finance	555	550	-1.1
SEASONALLY ADJUSTED ESTIMATES
	Housing finance for owner occupation(a)	21 217	21 494	1.3
	Personal finance	6 319	6 318	0.0
	Commercial finance	42 944	42 024	-2.1
	Lease finance	550	536	-2.6
(a) Excludes alterations and additions

Personal Finance

Commercial Finance

FEBRUARY KEY POINTS


FEBRUARY 2018 COMPARED WITH JANUARY 2018:

HOUSING FINANCE FOR OWNER OCCUPATION

• The total value of owner occupied housing commitments excluding alterations and additions rose 0.4% in trend terms, and the seasonally adjusted series rose 1.3%.

PERSONAL FINANCE

• The trend series for the value of total personal finance commitments fell 0.1%. Fixed lending commitments fell 0.7%, while revolving credit commitments rose 1.0%.
• The seasonally adjusted series for the value of total personal finance commitments was flat. Revolving credit commitments rose 3.7%, while fixed lending commitments fell 2.2%.

COMMERCIAL FINANCE

• The trend series for the value of total commercial finance commitments rose 0.2%. Fixed lending commitments rose 0.5%, while revolving credit commitments fell 0.6%.
• The seasonally adjusted series for the value of total commercial finance commitments fell 2.1%. Revolving credit commitments fell 18.7%, while fixed lending commitments rose 3.4%.

LEASE FINANCE

• The trend series for the value of total lease finance commitments fell 1.1% in February 2018 and the seasonally adjusted series fell 2.6%, following a fall of 6.3% in January 2018.

NOTES

FORTHCOMING ISSUES

ISSUE	Release Date
March 2018	15 May 2018
April 2018	12 June 2018
May 2018	13 July 2018
June 2018	10 August 2018
July 2018	11 September 2018

FORTHCOMING CHANGES

The ABS is proposing to combine 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). The new publication is expected to be released on 12 June 2018. 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.

An information paper which outlines the 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 the first release of Lending to Households and Businesses, Australia (5601.0).


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:

• Commercial Finance for the period January 2018.
• Lease Finance for the period January 2018.

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