Mortgage cliff turns into pothole

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The Australian Bankers Association (ABA) yesterday released data on its members’ deferred loans, which shows the mortgage cliff that was towering over Australia’s property market last year has shrunk into a molehill, down 97% from its peak at the end of February:

Mortgage cliff gone.

In raw numbers, there are now only 22,480 mortgages still under deferral, down 95% from the peak of 448,864 deferrals in April 2020:

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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.