Mortgage delinquencies rising

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Moody’s with the report.


Australian mortgage delinquency rates, which increased over the June quarter, will continue to rise moderately over the rest of this year as high interest rates and sticky inflation put financial stress on households.

The latest data for the residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) we rate shows the share of prime-quality home loans that were at least 30 days in arrears (30+ days delinquency rate) increased marginally to 1.73% in June from 1.72% in March.

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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.