Lending indicators

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Quarterly estimates of new borrower-accepted finance commitments for housing, personal and business loans

Reference period
September Quarter 2025
Released
12/11/2025
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Release date and time
12/11/2025 11:30am AEDT

Key statistics

In seasonally adjusted terms:

  • The total number of new loan commitments for dwellings rose 6.4% in the September quarter 2025 while the value rose 9.6%.
  • The number of new owner occupier loan commitments for dwellings rose 2.0% in the quarter while the value rose 4.7%.
  • The number of new investor loan commitments for dwellings rose 13.6% in the quarter while the value rose 17.6%.
  • The number of new owner occupier first home buyer loan commitments for dwellings rose 2.3% in the quarter while the value rose 1.1%.

Housing finance

Number of new loan commitments for dwellings (a), seasonally adjusted, Australia
 Sep Qtr 25
no.
Jun Qtr 25 to Sep Qtr 25
% change
Sep Qtr 24 to Sep Qtr 25
% change
Total loan commitments141,4706.45.8
 Owner occupier83,8462.01.7
  First home buyers29,6372.30.9
  Non-first home buyers55,1712.83.3
 Investor57,62413.612.3

a. Dwelling commitments exclude refinancing.

Loan commitments for dwellings includes loans for the purpose of 'Construction of new dwellings', 'Purchase of new dwellings' and 'Purchase of existing dwellings'. 'Residential land' and 'Alterations and additions' are available as separate series.

Value of new loan commitments for dwellings (a), seasonally adjusted, Australia
 Sep Qtr 25
$b
Jun Qtr 25 to Sep Qtr 25
% change
Sep Qtr 24 to Sep Qtr 25
% change
Total loan commitments98.09.613.2
 Owner occupier58.24.79.8
  First home buyers16.51.14.6
  Non-first home buyers42.56.212.7
 Investor39.817.618.7

a. Dwelling commitments exclude refinancing.

Loan commitments for dwellings includes loans for the purpose of 'Construction of new dwellings', 'Purchase of new dwellings' and 'Purchase of existing dwellings'. 'Residential land' and 'Alterations and additions' are available as separate series.

  1. All series exclude refinancing

    Some series only commenced collection in the September quarter 2019 with the introduction of the Economic and Financial Statistics collection.

    Loan commitments for dwellings includes loans for the purpose of ‘Construction of new dwellings’, ‘Purchase of new dwellings’ and ‘Purchase of existing dwellings’. 'Residential land' and 'Alterations and additions' are available as separate series.

  1. All series exclude refinancing

    Some series only commenced collection in the September quarter 2019 with the introduction of the Economic and Financial Statistics collection.

    Loan commitments for dwellings includes loans for the purpose of ‘Construction of new dwellings’, ‘Purchase of new dwellings’ and ‘Purchase of existing dwellings’. 'Residential land' and 'Alterations and additions' are available as separate series.

Please note that while the series graphed above are joined between the available data points, there may be missing data points in between which are not available for publication.

Please note that while the series graphed above are joined between the available data points, there may be missing data points in between which are not available for publication.

Series commenced collection in the September quarter 2019 with the introduction of the Economic and Financial Statistics collection.

Number of refinanced loan commitments, seasonally adjusted, Australia
 Sep Qtr 25
no.
Jun Qtr 25 to Sep Qtr 25
% change
Sep Qtr 24 to Sep Qtr 25
% change
Refinanced 
 Owner occupier 
  Internal45,2924.529.1
  External67,0510.118.7
 Investor 
  Internal14,5168.923.8
  External37,3038.417.9
Value of refinanced loan commitments, seasonally adjusted, Australia
 Sep Qtr 25
$b
Jun Qtr 25 to Sep Qtr 25
% change
Sep Qtr 24 to Sep Qtr 25
% change
Refinanced 
 Owner occupier 
  Internal24.86.540.8
  External41.32.124.7
 Investor 
  Internal9.514.033.3
  External24.59.726.0

Some series only commenced collection in the September quarter 2019 with the introduction of the Economic and Financial Statistics collection.

Some series only commenced collection in the September quarter 2019 with the introduction of the Economic and Financial Statistics collection.

Personal finance

Value of new loan commitments, personal fixed term (a), seasonally adjusted, Australia
  Sep Qtr 25
$b
Jun Qtr 25 to Sep Qtr 25
% change
Sep Qtr 24 to Sep Qtr 25
% change
Personal9.32.812.7
 Road vehicles4.90.47.0
 Other (b)4.58.721.8

Loan commitments for personal fixed term loans exclude refinancing.

  1. Any missing data points in the series above are not available for publication.

    Loan commitments for Personal 'Other' includes 'Personal investment', 'Travel and holidays', 'Other vehicles' and 'Household goods'.

Business finance

Value of new loan commitments, business, seasonally adjusted, Australia
  Sep Qtr 25
$b
Jun Qtr 25 to Sep Qtr 25
% change
Sep Qtr 24 to Sep Qtr 25
% change
Business 
 Construction12.0-5.222.1
 Purchase of Property24.67.121.9

Any missing data points in the series above are not available for publication.

Important quality notes

Seasonal adjustment methods

Housing finance data quality

Housing finance: Changes this quarter

Data downloads

Housing Finance - Total

Data files

Housing Finance - Owner-occupiers

Data files

Housing Finance - Investors

Data files

Housing Finance - Non First Home Buyers

Table 23. Households; Housing finance; Non First home buyers; Owner occupier; By state; New loan commitments; Numbers and values

Housing Finance - First home buyers

Data files

Housing Finance - Non-residents

Table 26. Households; Housing finance; Non-residents; New loan commitments; Numbers and values

Personal Finance

Table 27. Households; Personal finance; Fixed term loans; By purpose; New loan commitments; Values

Business Finance

Data files

Data cubes

Series ID concordance mapping

Previous catalogue number

This release previously used catalogue number 5601.0.

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