Credit cards hide mortgage pressures (The Australian)

Story date: 2007-09-18 07:00:00
Added on: 2007-09-18 11:00:21

THE number of households in severe mortgage stress will balloon by more than half by next June, because the depth of the problem is masked by desperate borrowers obtaining new credit cards to free up money to make home loan repayments.


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