Maximum loan sizes slashed: how banks are cracking down on borrowers
Clancy Yeates and Su-Lin Tan
Updated
Major banks have lopped tens of thousands of dollars off how much they are prepared to lend home buyers reflecting tougher lending standards as property prices weaken.
A couple with combined income of $120,000 purchasing an investment property will have to make do with up to $80,000 less from a major bank than they would have had a year ago.
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Clancy Yeates is deputy business editor. He has covered banking and financial services, and was previously national business correspondent in the Canberra bureau. Connect with Clancy on Twitter.
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