Summary: Home loan approvals increase in number, value in September; “Homebuilder”, first buyer deposit scheme, RBA rate guidance “buoy confidence”; owner-occupier, investor loan commitments up again; loan activity including refinancing “only a smidge below previous record high. A very clear downtrend was evident in the monthly figures of both the number and value of home loan commitments through late-2017 to mid-2019. Then the RBA reduced its cash rate target...