ANZ under Nuno Matos: growth remains a work in progress
ANZ has kept pace with the major banks in investor housing under Nuno Matos, but APRA data show weaker relative growth across business lending, owner-occupied mortgages and deposits.
Topic
Housing Lending
A collection of 4 issues
Macquarie's housing loan book just grew 25.9% in 12 months
Macquarie added $38.2 billion to its housing loan book over the year to July 2026, accounting for almost a quarter of the increase across Australia's banking system.
The strange death of Australia’s standard variable mortgage rate
RBA Table F5 is a monthly dataset of indicator lending rates. In plain English, that means it reports the headline rates lenders advertise across products such as small business lending, housing loans and credit cards. Within the mortgage series, two terms matter. A standard variable rate is the lender’s
Home loan data - mixed picture post abolition of negative gearing
The Australian Bureau of Statistics has reported that the number of new home loans fell 5.4% in the June quarter, to 134,225. The value of new lending fell 5.2%, or $5.4 billion, following a 3.4% decline in the March quarter.
Investors led the quarterly retreat.