Limited low-deposit lending to investors
The bulk of lending to property investors will not be affected by the new loan-to-value restrictions, which come into effect from November.
Friday, September 25th 2015, 6:00AM
by Susan Edmunds
Banks will be heavily restricted in the amount of lending they can do to people purchasing investment properties in Auckland with less than 30% equity.
The rule that no more than 10% of their new lending can go to buyers with a deposit of less than 20% will still apply for Auckland owner-occupiers.
Elsewhere in the country, banks will be able to lend 15% to small-deposit borrowers.
But latest Reserve Bank statistics show few investors are in that under-30% category, anyway.
There was only $868 million in lending over 70% LVR to investors in August, out of total lending of $5.9 billion.
First-home buyers were the second-smallest group of borrowers in the month, after people borrowing for business purposes.
There was $624 million in loans to first-home buyers in the month, $3.251 billion to other owner-occupiers and $1.99 billion to investors.
Just $182 million was lent to first-home buyers with deposit of less than 20%. Most of the low-deposit lending went to other homeowners.
Banks were well below their 10% threshold for lending to borrowers with less than 20% equity – just 6.3% of new loans in the month was in that category.
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