{"id":34050,"date":"2018-05-08T06:32:13","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T11:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=34050"},"modified":"2018-05-08T06:32:13","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T11:32:13","slug":"australians-face-huge-spike-in-repayments-as-interest-only-home-loans-expire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=34050","title":{"rendered":"Australians Face Huge Spike in Repayments as Interest-Only Home Loans Expire"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Australians Face Huge Spike in Repayments as Interest-Only Home Loans Expire<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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Day of Reckoning: Hundreds of thousands of interest-only loan terms expire each year for the next few years.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n
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The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), Australia’s central bank, warns of a $7000 Spike in Loan Repayments<\/a> as interest-only term periods expire.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Every year for the next three years, up to an estimated 200,000 home loans will be moved from low repayments to higher repayments as their interest-only loans expire. The median increase in payments is around $7000 a year, according to the RBA.<\/p>\n

What happens if people can\u2019t afford the big hike in loan repayments? They may have to sell up, which could see a wave of houses being sold into a falling market. The RBA has been paying careful attention to this because the scale of the issue is potentially enough to send shockwaves through the whole economy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u200bIn 2017, the government cracked down hard on interest-only loans. Those loans generally have an interest-only period lasting five years. When it expires, some borrowers would simply roll it over for another five years. Now, however, many will not all be able to, and will instead have to start paying back the loan itself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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That extra repayment is a big increase. Even though the interest rate falls slightly when you start paying off the principal, the extra payment required is substantial.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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\u200bRBA Unconcerned<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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For now, the RBA is unconcerned: \u201cThis upper-bound estimate of the effect is relatively modest,\u201d the RBA said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Good luck with that.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Australians Face Huge Spike in Repayments as Interest-Only Home Loans Expire \u00a0 Day of Reckoning: Hundreds of thousands of interest-only loan terms expire each year for the next few years. The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), Australia’s central bank, warns of a $7000 Spike in Loan Repayments as interest-only term periods expire. Every year for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[41,1583,2340,20067,14648,13390,3086],"class_list":["post-34050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-australia","tag-housing","tag-housing-market","tag-interest-only-loans","tag-michael-shedlock","tag-mishtalk","tag-reserve-bank-of-australia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34051,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34050\/revisions\/34051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}