[infogram id=”_/DNZ3cboYIXE2uQTdOxcT” prefix=”Rji” format=”interactive” title=”Figure 4.3 value of new home loan commitments for investor purchase”]

This graph shows two waves of investor finance for NSW, QLD and Victoria, before and after 2015-16, corresponding with substantial growth in the supply of privately rented dwellings. From the beginning of 2010-11 to the end of 2013-14, approximately 262,000 additional households, and in 2017-18, another 245,000 households, entered the private rental sector, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (Housing Occupancy and Costs)