Mortgage stress now grips 42 per cent of Australian households, according to a UNSW City Futures Research Centre survey. This is a sharp increase from 30 per cent in February 2020.
Australia’s most experienced advocate for victims of predatory bank lending has slammed as “insane” Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s policy to lower bank lending standards to boost economic activity.
The REIA's figures, from a December 2007 survey, follow a JP Morgan/Fujitsu Consulting Mortgage Industry report which forecast 300,000 mortgage foreclosures across Australia this year.
