Aussie Home Loans: Punters locked out of mortgages “en masse”

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Via Domainfax comes chief executive of broking giant Aussie Home Loans, James Symond:

After banks have tightened credit standards “dramatically” in the last year, Mr Symond said more customers Aussie was dealing with were falling outside the lending policies of banks, which have ramped up their scrutiny of customers’ living expenses.

…”I’m hoping everyone is looking at it very, very carefully, because I’m seeing a credit marketplace tightening a lot, a real lot. And if we saw it tighten any more, I think that you mightn’t get the desired outcomes you want,” he said in an interview with Fairfax Media.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.