New home finance also posts dead cat bounce

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By Leith van Onselen

Today’s housing finance data for May posted a 0.8% rebound in the number of new home finance commitments (both construction and new), although commitments were down by 5.2% over the year and by 10.7% since the July 2017 peak:

Nevertheless, the annual number of new home commitments is still running near the highest levels since the mid-1990s, but clearly retracing:

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About the author
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.