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• In seasonally adjusted terms, new lending commitments to households rose 3.9% in July 2019, following a 1.9% rise in June.
• The rise in lending to households was driven by owner occupier dwellings excluding refinancing (up 5.3%), refinancing of household loans (up 5.4%) and investment dwellings excluding refinancing (up 4.7%).
• New lending for owner occupier dwellings excluding refinancing fell 8.3% on July 2018 and new lending for investment dwellings excluding refinancing fell 20.4% on July 2018.
• In trend terms, new lending commitments for owner occupier dwellings excluding refinancing rose 0.7% and investment dwellings excluding refinancing rose 0.3% in July 2019.
• There were rises in the number of new lending commitments to owner occupier first home buyers (1.3%) and owner occupier non-first home buyers (4.0%) in seasonally adjusted terms. Growth in the number of non-first home buyers was greater than the growth in the number of first home buyers for the first time since December 2018.
• Lending to households for refinancing rose 5.4% in seasonally adjusted terms. Refinancing of owner occupier dwellings was the largest contributor to the rise in July (up 6.3%), followed by refinancing of investment dwellings (up 3.5%) and refinancing of personal loans (up 4.3%).
• Personal finance excluding refinancing fell 2.6% in seasonally adjusted terms during July 2019 and is down 8.9% from July 2018.
• In trend terms, the value of lending commitments to businesses fell 1.3% in July 2019, but is up 1.5% from July 2018.

			Value of loan commitments
			Value	Month Percent Change	Year Percent Change
			$m	%	%
Trend
Total lending			66 404	-0.4	-5.2
	Lending to households(a)(b)		31 319	0.5	-11.7
		Lending to households for dwellings excluding refinancing(c)	17 221	0.6	-14.2
		Lending to households for personal finance excluding refinancing	4 868	0.3	-13.1
	Lending to businesses		35 085	-1.3	1.5
Seasonally Adjusted
Total lending			65 017	1.3	-8.3
	Lending to households(a)(b)		32 239	3.9	-9.2
		Lending to households for dwellings excluding refinancing(c)	17 896	5.1	-11.8
		Lending to households for personal finance excluding refinancing	4 887	-2.6	-8.9
	Lending to businesses		32 778	-1.1	-7.4
(a) Includes alterations and additions and refinancing
(b) Components may not sum to total due to independent seasonal adjustment
(c) Excludes alterations and additions

Lending to Households, Value of commitments

Lending to Businesses, Value of commitments

Over the past few years, APRA, the ABS and the RBA have worked to modernise the set of forms and banks have adapted their infrastructure to report on the new forms. The new set of forms is called the Economic and Financial Statistics (EFS) collection. EFS will give more detailed and better quality data on lending to households and businesses.

Changes from the implementation of EFS will be incorporated into the October 2019 publication of Lending to households and businesses, to be released on 17 December 2019. An information paper which outlines the changes in more detail will be released in October 2019.


REVISIONS IN THIS ISSUE

There are revisions to the data in this issue due to the incorporation of more up-to-date data and concurrent seasonal adjustment. For information on seasonal adjustment and trend estimation please refer to explanatory notes of this publication.


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