Quote Originally Posted by JBmurc View Post
One in 4 Aussies in mortgage stress
Yahoo7 Finance 4 May 2017

Interest rates may be at all-time lows but the number of households in mortgage stress is rising sharply.

One in four (767,000) Australian households are currently experiencing mortgage stress with just over 30,000 in ‘severe’ stress, according to Digital Finance Analytics.

The mortgage stress figure for April marks a jump of almost 100,000 households compared to March..

Read more here; https://au.finance.yahoo.com/news/on...051713070.html
I think that headline is a bit sensationalist , it is not 1 in 4 households, plenty of people rent, plenty mortgage free etc ...
Here are some more accurate figures.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/factcheck...tralia/6442650