Now for some pro-cyclical mortgage tightening at spooked banks

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The AFR is today describing what will very likely become the next round of mortgage tightening, risk-aversion in banks:

A major bank has a blacklist of 6700 apartment projects across Australia where buyers are refused loans or are offered reduced loan to value ratios (LVR), according to mortgage broker Home Loan Experts.

…The reasons for loan refusal or reduction include projects being too dense, projects located in areas with a potential oversupply of new units or the bank reaching maximum exposure of loans on a project, managing director Otto Dargan said.

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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.