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Category Archives: Asia-Pacific Market

Australian Household Debt To Income Reaches Sensitive Level

Australia’s mortgage performance is likely to remain stable in 2012, despite signs that household debt to income has reached sensitive levels amid declining property prices. That’s one of the key take-away messages from a market briefing hosted by Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services in Melbourne on March 27, 2012. The briefing also heard from Standard [...]

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Australian House Prices May Fall By More Than 5% If China Has A Soft Landing

A slowdown in China’s economic growth could have serious implications for the housing market in Australia. Standard & Poor’s expects China to experience a soft landing in 2012, with forecast GDP growth of 8%. Based on this scenario, we expect the Australian economy to continue its moderate growth path and that the performance of the [...]

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Dark Clouds Remain For Asia Property Developers, Particularly In China

The outlook for Asian property developers, particularly in China, remains bleak. Standard & Poor’s latest report on the sector “Worst Is Yet To Come For Chinese Developers In Asia’s Shaky Property Sector” notes that Asian property markets remain under strain to varying degrees due to macroeconomic and industry-specific factors. Chinese developers face the harshest conditions, [...]

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Asia-Pacific REITs stand in good stead to face shaky conditions

Asia-Pacific rated real estate investment trusts and real estate operating companies (collectively ‘REITs’) have toughened up in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. They have repaired their balance sheets, adopted more conservative financial profiles, and diversified their funding sources. However, contagion from Europe could unleash more anxiety to already jittery credit markets in Asia [...]

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Is The Worst Over For China’s Real Estate Developers?

In short, Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services thinks the answer is no. Indeed, we believe the industry is bracing for slower sales and lower property prices, thanks largely to the ongoing rollout of government regulations and credit-tightening measures. Making matters worse, we expect credit conditions to become increasingly severe for property developers. That would increase [...]

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Australian And New Zealand RMBS Criteria Released, With Limited Impact On Outstanding Ratings

This month, Standard & Poor’s updated its methodology and assumptions for analysing credit risk associated with collateral backing Australian and New Zealand residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS). These criteria, which apply immediately to all new and existing Australian and New Zealand RMBS backed by prime, subprime, and nonconforming mortgages, includes some changes from the criteria proposed [...]

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Sound Economy Is Aiding Outlook For The Australian Housing Market

Standard & Poor’s this month published its outlook assumptions for the Australian residential mortgage market to support its view of loss expectations for archetypical mortgage pools, as defined in its updated RMBS criteria article. Standard & Poor’s credit analysis of mortgage pools, which incorporates this outlook and expected loss scenario, reflects: The loss expectation for [...]

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Australian REITs go back to basics as debt appetite reduces

Like many REITs elsewhere, Australian commercial property companies rated by Standard & Poor’s are emerging from the global financial and economic crises with stronger balance sheets and improved risk profiles. Over the past few years, the sector has dramatically reduced its debt appetite, undertaken sizable equity raisings, adopted more conservative distribution policies, and reverted to [...]

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Australian RMBS Arrears Remain Low Amid Sound Housing Market And Economic Outlook

While the losses on various RMBS vintages continue to rise, they still remain low in absolute levels, as shown in the latest issue of the Australian RMBS Performance Watch. Loans that are in arrears by more-than-30 days were 1.80% in May 2011, as measured by the Standard & Poor’s Australian prime mortgage performance index (SPIN). [...]

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Australia’s Property Sector Diversification Of Funding & Trends In Property Financing

The FTA in conjunction with Standard & Poor’s are holding a series of forums to present the latest information and trends on Australia’s property sector and diversification of funding and trends in property financing. Topics to be covered include: Outlook for the property sector Debt refinancing challenges for REITs What property sub-sectors may experience increased [...]

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