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Australian owner occupier buying statistics

Statistics on owner occupier  home buyers can be sourced from a variety of sources. 

This includes:

Housing Finance, Australia – ABS. click on 5609.0

The ABS Housing Finance Australia is very informative data and includes measurements of owner occupier housing commitments and compared to investment  housing commitments.

• Value of dwellings financed
• Number of Owner Occupied Dwellings Financed
• Number of Owner Occupied Dwellings Financed – Each State
• First Home Buyer Commitments
• Number of Owner Occupied Dwellings Financed Excluding Refinancing
• Purpose of Finance Owner Occupation – Construction of dwellings
• Purpose of Finance Owner Occupation – Purchase of established dwellings (including refinancing across lending institutions)
• Refinancing commitments for owner occupied housing
• Bank owner occupier dwelling finance.
• Non bank owner occupier dwelling finance
• Housing loan outstandings

For example see ABS Housing Finance, Australia, Oct 2009 Summary of Findings

Other ABS and RBA data includes:

• Housing Finance, Australia – ABS. click on 5609.0
• Housing Loan Approvals – indicates non FHB owner occupiers activity, first home buyer, and investor activity. RBA Graph 68:
• Housing Rates and Loan Types – indicates average variable rate for owner occupiers, 2 year fixed rates and 5 year fixed rates. RBA Graph 66:
• ABS Housing Occupancy and Costs 2007-2008.  4230.0. 
• Fewer Australians own their home outright: ABS.

Provision of Owner-occupier and Investor Housing Credit Data – Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA)

See RBA Financial Aggregates - Comments are made on housing credit and a complete set of tables are downloadable.

For example see the November 2009 Financial Aggregates and download the complete set of tables [XLS 173K]

As an example of the November 2009 Financial Aggregates

• Owner occupier (including securitisations) percentage change for 12 month ended April 2009 was a low point of  8.2%.
• Owner occupier  (including securitisations) percentage change for 12 month ended Oct 2009 was 10.0% and in Nov 2009 was 10.0%.

Please note: The RBA Explanatory Note on Provision of Owner-occupier and Investor Housing Credit Data

 

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