MAY KEY FIGURES

		Apr 2018	May 2018	Apr 2018 to May 2018
		$m	$m	% change
TREND ESTIMATES
	Housing finance for owner occupation(a)	21 122	21 089	-0.2
	Personal finance	6 159	6 129	-0.5
	Commercial finance	40 302	39 455	-2.1
	Lease finance	565	575	1.8
SEASONALLY ADJUSTED ESTIMATES
	Housing finance for owner occupation(a)	21 015	21 168	0.7
	Personal finance	6 267	5 987	-4.5
	Commercial finance	40 208	39 317	-2.2
	Lease finance	552	622	12.8
(a) Excludes alterations and additions

Personal Finance

Commercial Finance

MAY KEY POINTS


MAY 2018 COMPARED WITH APRIL 2018:

HOUSING FINANCE FOR OWNER OCCUPATION

• The total value of owner occupied housing commitments excluding alterations and additions fell 0.2% in trend terms, while the seasonally adjusted series rose 0.7%.

PERSONAL FINANCE

• The trend series for the value of total personal finance commitments fell 0.5%. Fixed lending commitments fell 0.8%, while revolving credit commitments was flat.
• The seasonally adjusted series for the value of total personal finance commitments fell 4.5%. Revolving credit commitments fell 12.0%, while fixed lending commitments rose 0.6%.

COMMERCIAL FINANCE

• The trend series for the value of total commercial finance commitments fell 2.1%. Fixed lending commitments fell 2.6% and revolving credit commitments fell 0.4%.
• The seasonally adjusted series for the value of total commercial finance commitments fell 2.2%. Fixed lending commitments fell 6.3%, while revolving credit commitments rose 12.6%.

LEASE FINANCE

• The trend series for the value of total lease finance commitments rose 1.8% in May 2018 and the seasonally adjusted series rose 12.8%, following a rise of 2.9% in April 2018.

NOTES

FORTHCOMING ISSUES

ISSUE	Release Date
June 2018	10 August 2018
July 2018	11 September 2018
August 2018	16 October 2018
September 2018	13 November 2018
October 2018	12 December 2018

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:

• Commercial Finance for the periods March 2018 and April 2018.
• Personal Finance for the period April 2018.
• Owner occupied housing for the period April 2018.
• Investment housing for the period April 2018.

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