JUNE KEY FIGURES

		May 2018	Jun 2018	May 2018 to Jun 2018
		$m	$m	% change
TREND ESTIMATES
	Housing finance for owner occupation(a)	20 959	20 917	-0.2
	Personal finance	6 130	6 102	-0.4
	Commercial finance	40 533	40 651	0.3
	Lease finance	598	616	2.9
SEASONALLY ADJUSTED ESTIMATES
	Housing finance for owner occupation(a)	21 058	20 846	-1.0
	Personal finance	6 004	6 050	0.8
	Commercial finance	39 479	42 326	7.2
	Lease finance	632	647	2.4
(a) Excludes alterations and additions

Personal Finance

Commercial Finance

JUNE KEY POINTS


JUNE 2018 COMPARED WITH MAY 2018:

HOUSING FINANCE FOR OWNER OCCUPATION

• The total value of owner occupied housing commitments excluding alterations and additions fell 0.2% in trend terms and the seasonally adjusted series fell 1.0%.

PERSONAL FINANCE

• The trend series for the value of total personal finance commitments fell 0.4%. Revolving credit commitments fell 2.2%, while fixed lending commitments rose 0.6%.
• The seasonally adjusted series for the value of total personal finance commitments rose 0.8%. Fixed lending commitments rose 4.9%, while revolving credit commitments fell 6.4%.

COMMERCIAL FINANCE

• The trend series for the value of total commercial finance commitments rose 0.3%. Revolving credit commitments rose 0.6% and fixed lending commitments rose 0.2%.
• The seasonally adjusted series for the value of total commercial finance commitments rose 7.2%. Fixed lending commitments rose 8.6% and revolving credit commitments rose 3.2%.

LEASE FINANCE

• The trend series for the value of total lease finance commitments rose 2.9% in June 2018 and the seasonally adjusted series rose 2.4%, following a rise of 14.3% in May 2018.

NOTES

FORTHCOMING ISSUES

ISSUE	Release Date
July 2018	11 September 2018
August 2018	16 October 2018
September 2018	13 November 2018
October 2018	12 December 2018
November 2018	21 January 2019

FORTHCOMING CHANGES

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 outlines the format of the new publication, as well as providing 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

• Owner occupied housing for the period May 2018.
• Personal Finance for the period May 2018.

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