Home lending up 7.6% to $18.78bn and profit up 27.3% in FY26. The number brokers should read is the first home buyer concentration, not the growth.
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Bluestone and Agile polled over 18,000 Australians. Just 10% of self-employed borrowers used a mortgage broker, while 62% sought financial advice.
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Loan Market’s August data shows investor pre-approvals down 55% while year-to-date lodgements held up 6.5%. What the gap means for your forward book.
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Cash sits at 4.35%; another +25bp would hit 4.60% — highest since 2011. Finconnex’s Aryal on nervous FHBs, investors and the $1,000 portfolio hit.
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Brokers wrote a record 81.6% of new home loans last quarter while $371bn of balances changed lender. Why 37% of that churn never trips a rate alert.
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APRA’s July data: ADI housing books grew $5.6bn, the weakest month since February 2024, while business credit added $7bn. What it signals for brokers.
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COG printed $9bn in FY26. Cash-flow and secured lending jumped 190%. AFG commercial hit $4.3bn, up 19%. If that slot is still specialist-only, pull the count.
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Equifax printed four straight months of year-on-year mortgage-demand decline. Plan the book for a smaller enquiry pool, not a September rebound.
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Resimac credited brokers for 20% home-loan settlement growth and $49.9m normalised NPAT. If they are still a specialist-only slot, check the panel.
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MA Money lifted prime full-doc and alt-doc max LVR from 75% to 80% on loans to $5m and opened category-1 AVMs to $2m. Which of your files were stuck?
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Macquarie just printed 7.1 per cent share on a book that is 95 per cent broker-originated. If they are 40 per cent of yours, that is a single point of failure.
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NAB forecasts 2.5% housing credit growth to September 2027 against Westpac’s 4.7%. How to build a brokerage plan that survives either outcome.
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