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JUNE KEY FIGURES

		May 2007	Jun 2007	May 2007 to Jun 2007
		$m	$m	% change
TREND ESTIMATES
	Housing finance for owner occupation	15 478	15 781	2.0
	Personal finance	7 014	7 195	2.6
	Commercial finance	41 052	42 571	3.7
	Lease finance	552	550	-0.3
SEASONALLY ADJUSTED ESTIMATES
	Housing finance for owner occupation	15 273	16 288	6.6
	Personal finance	6 800	7 850	15.4
	Commercial finance	37 347	48 559	30.0
	Lease finance	549	520	-5.2

Personal finance

Commercial finance

JUNE KEY POINTS


JUNE 2007 COMPARED WITH MAY 2007:

HOUSING FINANCE FOR OWNER OCCUPATION

• The total value of owner occupied housing commitments excluding alterations and additions increased by 6.6% (seasonally adjusted) and the trend series rose 2.0%.

• The seasonally adjusted series for the value of total personal finance commitments rose by 15.4%. This increase was due to a rise in both revolving credit commitments (up 19.1%) and fixed lending commitments (up 11.1%).
• The trend series for the value of total personal finance rose 2.6% due to a rise in both revolving credit commitments (up 3.1%) and fixed lending commitments (up 2.0%).

• The seasonally adjusted series for the value of total commercial finance commitments rose by 30.0%. This increase was due to a rise in both fixed lending commitments (up 36.8%) and revolving credit commitments (up 20.0%).
• The trend series for the value of total commercial finance commitments rose 3.7%. This was due to a rise in both fixed lending commitments (up 3.8%) and revolving credit commitments (up 3.6%).

• Lease finance commitments (seasonally adjusted) decreased by 5.2%. The lease finance trend series fell by 0.3%.

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.