Housing finance remains decoupled from CoreLogic index

Tuesday, 24 January 2017

With the release of the ABS’ housing finance data for November, it is an opportune time to once again plot CoreLogic’s dwelling price series against the total value of finance commitments (excluding refinancings) as measured by the ABS.

Note: the ABS’ housing finance data is current to November 2016, whereas CoreLogic’s dwelling values are current to December 2016.

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Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.