Recently, a new report was released from Fitch Ratings, a global ratings agency which details mortgage performance by postcode, showed that mortgage delinquency rate in Western Australia has increased while Queensland has made history as Australia’s worst state for mortgage defaults.

The Fitch Ratings report showed that a rise of 1.99 percent, from 1.94 per cent, was being observed from the mortgage delinquency rate in the six months to March in WA while Queensland was recorded with the highest number of mortgage holders that are in debts at 2 percent.

This means that there is an increase in the number of Aussies all across the country who are struggling to pay their mortgages.

The report further revealed that 2315 including Nelson Bay is reported to be the worst-performing postcode in the country showing one in 18 mortgages or 5.6 percent are at least a month overdue.

Likewise, New South Wales (NSW) is home to five of the 10 worst-performing regions in the nation, with Fairfield-Liverpool as the worst-performing region in Australia, having one in 35 mortgages at least a month overdue and Victoria is home to five of the 10 best, with Mill Park and Brighton East as home to Victoria’s hardest-suffering home loan customers.

In the top 20 worst-performing postcodes in the country are Rockingham, Mandurah, Casuarina and West Swan.

Queensland’s Logan city is recorded to be the worst district in Australia for mortgage delinquency with 2.1 per cent of mortgage holders in default beyond 30 days.

At Fault

With borrowers experiencing significant financial distress resulting in mortgage stress seen spreading all across the country, the blame is attributed to the summer flooding as well as the interest rates increases, including one in November.

The statewide rising trend of mortgage stress is expected to further negatively influence the prices of home designs by pushing down declining house prices as “mortgage stress” sales increase.

Prices in house plan will again be forced to be lowered, softening the property market as many “mortgage stress” house owners will be forced to sell their houses.

Though the impact of interest rate increases takes time to be seen, “mortgage stress” home plan owners still are affected for they are worried for another interest rate increase.

With Australian homeowners impacted with the recent summer floods and interest rate hike and an expected interest increase in June, they are now more than ever under stress with their mortgage payments as some borrowers are in arrears by one or more payments.

All Time Low

With the recent development, Australia’s economy is now mixed and struggling.

With NAB’s Index of Business revealing further grim news for the domestic economy, it has reached its lowest ebb since early 2009 when the economy was still spinning from the shock of the global financial crisis.

Used to measure business conditions based on measures of trading conditions, profitability and employment, the NAB’s index has recorded near-record low levels across all three sectors.

Conditions in retail, manufacturing, wholesale and construction are still very poor.

However, the mining sector continues to save Australia’s economy as mining conditions outperformed all other industries.

Recently in the news, it has been reported that the number of loans from people who want to buy new houses for sale have dropped.

According to the report, residential property prices have increased in 2010 and will continue declining in the next six months as big mortgage brokers report a 20 per cent plunge in loan numbers.

Many home for sale will be affected by this situation.

Mr. John Symond, Aussie Home Loans managing director, said that its new loan volumes had dropped 20 per cent in the past four months for the reason that the housing market has become soft.

Mr. Symond added that the Aussie had kept its 5 per cent share of the market and, until December last year, usually settled $1 billion worth of new home loans a month.

Mr. Symond reiterated that the general consensus is that the market is down around 20 per cent in new loan volumes.

This makes the houses for sale market in jeopardy. Many newly formed families are now delaying to execute their house plans for their new family as the property market is down.

Many newly formed families are hesitant to take on a loan with the still on going global economic crisis which has affected first home buyers, thus reducing the number of house buyers resulting to the housing market becoming soft. This means that with the number of first home buyers risking to take on a loan, the number of first home buyers who want to pay the sellers price are also dwindling resulting in the property market favoring towards the buyers.

Mr. Symond said that in general, housing throughout the country is certainly in a cooling stage which is swinging towards a buyers’ market particularly for properties above $700,000 or $800,000.

Mr. Symond further stated that Australia’s housing market is beyond the peak of the cycle and will probably go on to soften over the next six months.

Currently, the housing market in recent months is now starting to get soft and is still estimated to get soft in the subsequent six months.

Though, property prices close to the city are still quite competitive.

Mr. Symond said that the cheaper prices close to the city, with the ranging prices up to $600,000 or $700,000, are still quite good for the reason that first home buyers and small investors are all vying for those prime properties.

Mr. Symond further added that the competition among brokers had not intensified in spite of a host of post-global financial crisis mergers and acquisitions in the sector, making the industry more concentrated.

With this development, the property value for homes for sale are now significantly decreasing with the softening of the market; however, even with these development, many first home buyers are still hesitant to take a loan due to the ongoing global crisis leading to new home  loan takers plunging.

With the softening of the market, many are commenting that it is best that the prices of houses for sale are significantly down at this time while there are still jobs around.

However, the problem is with fewer couples risking to take a loan, though the property market is down, many houses are now without buyers.

Australian couples have now put their house plans ahead of their plan of having children. They want a house plan first before having kids.

As the cost of entering the property market rises, around one in three Australians are now planning to delay their plans to start or grow a family.

According to a PRD nationwide survey, out of the 2000 Australians that were surveyed, it was found out that 34 per cent of the respondents of the survey were considering delaying their plan of having children as house prices increase or entry cost rises.

The increasing house prices has catapulted the Australian couples to change their plans of having a family to having a house first.

Aaron Maskrey, the PRD nationwide research director, said that because couples want to buy their own homes first, a significant number of them are postponing their plan of starting their own families.

Maskrey commented that though the long-term trend has seen prices for houses rising; however, the current softening of values in many areas are possible to attract many potential buyers into home ownership as these conditions will not hold in the long term.

He added that this condition has changed important life decisions, such as when to start a family.

Australian couple’s plan of starting a family, i.e. of having children, has now taken a backseat to the plan of buying a house. Because Australian couples perceive that the softening values of home designs would not last long, they are now changing their plan to having first their own house instead of having children first.

This trend has opened the market for Australian house plans; thus, the result is increasing the price of home plan.

Australian couples are now considering buying first their own house instead of starting making a family particularly having children.

As shown by the latest REIA Housing Affordability Report, it now costs an average Australian family about 35.3 per cent of their income to service the home loan.

This report shows that though this is still down from the previous year’s REIA Housing Affordability Report by 4.6 per cent, this still is up from 34.8 per cent in September 2010.

However, the survey also shows that more than half of the respondents or 55 per cent of them would not allow the state of the property market prevent them from starting a family.

This result shows that though some of the Australian couples are considering delaying having a family first to buying a house, most of them are still intending to start a family particularly having children. The condition of the property market has not discouraged them from intending to have children. Though having children has taken a backseat to buying a house.

Maskrey added that the remaining 10 per cent of respondents that were surveyed said that the research was not applicable to their situation.

As expected, last week, the Reserve Bank of Australia has left the cash rate unchanged at 4.75 per cent and the post-meeting statement released was almost identical to last month’s statement.

Australia is one of the countries who did not stop in providing consumers with new homes for sale with its new house plans. Thus, this is done to lure future clients to have no hesitations in buying these new houses. Some clients will end up applying for mortgages in order to avail their house easily and paying their houses by installments with little interest rates.

According to a major ratings agency, there has been an increase in the number of Australians who failed to pay their home loans on time. It has been shown by the Fitch ratings quarterly Dinkum index that delinquent mortgages rose up to 1.37 percent from a mere 1.3 in the last 3 months of the year 2010. This rise was attributed to the increasing number of people falling into arrears of more than 90 days. It has been noted that 0.48 percent of people who haven’t paid their home loans for more than 90 days went up to 0.54 percent recently. This will put a household to face foreclosure once the mortgage is not being settled promptly.

Though this is not a good picture for the housing industry and for the financing industry still, the associate director of Fitch’s structured finance team James Zanesi optimistically declared that a number of mortgages in arrears is likely to increase in the first three months of 2011. But mortgage performance may not be upbeat during the 1st quarter due to the Christmas holiday season.

The interest hike and Queensland floods may also affect the index. Some may have lost their source of income or may have lost their jobs due to the flood; thus, contributing to not being able to cope up with the household expenditures and mortgage loans.

According to Fitch Ratings analyst Natasha Vojvodic, she said that while mortgage delinquency is expected to increase in the first quarter, everything will improve as long as the Reserve Bank will keep official interest rates on the same level for a while for people to be able to comply with the payments.

Vodvojic said that despite the increase in arrears, still the economy is strong and will be able to withstand this downfall. She noted that the unemployment is still low and this is not the main reason for the increased arrears. She pointed out that the main reason for the arrears is the interest rates and thus, everything will depend on the interest rates that will be given in the remaining year.

Mr. Zanesi contradicted that despite these increasing interest rates, still Australians are able to cope with these changes and are still able to pay the mortgages due to them.

All in all, this is just a minor setback and as the year continues, it is hoped and expected that the people will be able to find ways and will be able to fulfill their responsibilities in paying their debts one way or another. Both the consumer and the banks will have to enter into some agreement so that both will not end up at a loss. Chances are to be given and everything will run smoothly. No one will lose a home.

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Written by: Dashiell Wood