Low interest rates and the boosted first home owners grant are propping up the mortgage market. Mortgage lending was up 3% in May 2009 according to the Bureau of Statistics to more than $17 billion.
Mortgage lending has been going up since last October. Official interest rates are now at a 49 year low of three per cent. The Reserve Bank has signalled that it is prepared to cut rates further if economic conditions deteriorate.
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