APRA just released their quarterly data on housing exposures, which captures Authorised Deposit-Taking Institutions (ADIs) loans to the housing sector for the September quarter of 2014.
According to APRA, ADIs’ total domestic housing loans were $1.3 trillion, an increase of $103.4 billion (9.0%) over the year to September, with the value of interest only loans growing by 14%. There were also 5.2 million housing loans outstanding with an average balance of $239,000.