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SEPTEMBER KEY FIGURES

		Aug 2007	Sep 2007	Aug 2007 to Sep 2007
		$m	$m	% change
TREND ESTIMATES
	Housing finance for owner occupation	15 366	15 265	-0.7
	Personal finance	6 718	6 646	-1.1
	Commercial finance	43 528	44 417	2.0
	Lease finance	545	548	0.5
SEASONALLY ADJUSTED ESTIMATES
	Housing finance for owner occupation	15 274	14 895	-2.5
	Personal finance	6 482	6 494	0.2
	Commercial finance	44 906	43 181	-3.8
	Lease finance	554	564	1.9

Personal finance

Commercial finance

SEPTEMBER KEY POINTS


SEPTEMBER 2007 COMPARED WITH AUGUST 2007:

HOUSING FINANCE FOR OWNER OCCUPATION

• The total value of owner occupied housing commitments excluding alterations and additions decreased by 2.5% (seasonally adjusted) and the trend series fell 0.7%.

• The seasonally adjusted series for the value of total personal finance commitments rose by 0.2%. This increase was due to a rise in revolving credit commitments (up 1.0%), substantially offset by a fall in fixed lending commitments (down 0.8%).
• The trend series for the value of total personal finance fell 1.1%, due to a fall in both fixed lending commitments (down 1.5%) and revolving credit commitments (down 0.7%).

• The seasonally adjusted series for the value of total commercial finance commitments fell by 3.8%. This decrease was due to a fall in fixed lending commitments (down 6.3%), while revolving credit commitments rose (up 1.1%).
• The trend series for the value of total commercial finance commitments rose 2.0%. This was due to a rise in both fixed lending commitments (up 3.0%) and revolving credit commitments (up 0.4%).

• Lease finance commitments (seasonally adjusted) increased by 1.9%. The lease finance trend series rose by 0.5%.

INQUIRIES

For further information about these and related statistics, contact the National Information and Referral Service on 1300 135 070 or Philip Beresford on Canberra (02) 6252 6052.