Quote Originally Posted by Darchie View Post
Another crude way is checking out the loan numbers for a month ... just did this and i see they've gone from approx 63297 up to 65355 .. so roughly averaging around 68 odd loans per day yet within this time frame we had a long weekend ... so the daily listed up loans would be a little higher.

Yes but at what point is the loan ID allocated - Based on the fact they arrive to market out of order - and the odd one can turn up out of order by several thousand - this means the ID's are allocated at an earlier stage - probably either to each application (approved or not) or at approval . So the number you get from this calculation is most likely the number of applications - or the number of approved applications - not the actual number of loans issued.

I also believe that all loans where the borrower chose insurance are being exclusively funded by the corporate lenders and are unavailable to retail currently. So this will further reduce the retail number available.