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MARCH KEY FIGURES

		Feb 2007	Mar 2007	Feb 2007 to Mar 2007
		$m	$m	% change
TREND ESTIMATES
	Housing finance for owner occupation	14 263	14 399	1.0
	Personal finance	6 753	6 764	0.2
	Commercial finance	34 671	34 667	-
	Lease finance	537	544	1.5
SEASONALLY ADJUSTED ESTIMATES
	Housing finance for owner occupation	14 276	14 523	1.7
	Personal finance	6 755	6 690	-1.0
	Commercial finance	40 588	38 572	-5.0
	Lease finance	563	566	0.5
- nil or rounded to zero (including null cells)

Personal finance

Commercial finance

MARCH KEY POINTS


MARCH 2007 COMPARED WITH FEBRUARY 2007:

HOUSING FINANCE FOR OWNER OCCUPATION

• The total value of owner occupied housing commitments excluding alterations and additions increased by 1.7% (seasonally adjusted), while the trend series rose 1.0%.

• The seasonally adjusted series for the value of total personal finance commitments fell by 1.0%. This decrease was due to a fall in revolving credit commitments (down 2.3%) more than offsetting an increase in fixed lending commitments (up 0.7%).
• The trend series for the value of total personal finance rose 0.2% due to a rise in both fixed lending commitments (up 0.2%) and revolving credit commitments (up 0.1%).

• The seasonally adjusted series for the value of total commercial finance commitments fell by 5.0%. This decrease was due to a fall in fixed lending commitments (down 22.7%) more than offsetting an increase in revolving credit commitments (up 21.2%).
• The trend series for the value of total commercial finance commitments remained virtually unchanged. A rise in revolving credit commitments (up 2.2%) offset a decrease in fixed lending commitments (down 1.2%).

• Lease finance commitments (seasonally adjusted) increased by 0.5%. The lease finance trend series rose by 1.5%.

CHANGES IN FORTHCOMING ISSUES

As advised in the previous issue, the format of the datacube table 13 for this publication will be changed to align with the current standard for excel spreadsheets (i.e. in .xls format). The new format is available as table 13a with both tables 13 and 13a released with this issue of 5671.0. Table 13 will be withdrawn from the April 2007 issue. Table 13a will then be renumbered to Table 13.

INQUIRIES

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