{"id":14063,"date":"2025-11-03T10:34:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T05:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/westpac-says-labors-expanded-first-home-buyers-scheme-saw-150-jump-in-loan-applications\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T10:34:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T05:04:28","slug":"westpac-says-labors-expanded-first-home-buyers-scheme-saw-150-jump-in-loan-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/westpac-says-labors-expanded-first-home-buyers-scheme-saw-150-jump-in-loan-applications\/","title":{"rendered":"Westpac says Labor\u2019s expanded first home buyers scheme saw 150% jump in loan applications"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"nshorts-card-frame\">\n<div class=\"nshorts-cat lang-en\">\u090f\u0928 \u0936\u0949\u0930\u094d\u091f\u094d\u0938'<\/div>\n<div class=\"nshorts-headline\">Westpac says Labor\u2019s expanded first home buyers scheme saw 150% jump in loan applications<\/div>\n<div class=\"nshorts-summary\">Big bank also reveals it has ceased corporate lending to thermal coalmines, but it still funds oil and gas extraction businessesFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastHome loan applications have surged in response to the government\u2019s expanded 5% deposit scheme, according to Westpac, as first home buyers pile into a hot property market accelerating at its fastest pace in years.Applications for government-guaranteed mortgages at the big bank more than doubled in October 2025 compared to October 2024, after a 150% jump when the scheme expanded on 1 October, Nathan Goonan, the bank\u2019s chief financial officer, said on Monday. Continue reading&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"nshorts-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2025\/nov\/03\/westpac-labor-housing-deposit-scheme-jump-in-loan-applications\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read Full Story<\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"nshorts-disclaimer\">Technically enhanced content presented under fair use in public-interest journalism.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"nshorts-audio-section\" style=\"margin-top:15px;padding:10px;background:#f5f5f5;border-radius:5px\"><strong>Listen:<\/strong> <audio controls style=\"width:100%;margin:10px 0\">Your browser does not support the audio element.<\/audio><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:5px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/translate.google.com\/translate_tts?ie=UTF-8&#038;tl=en&#038;client=tw-ob&#038;q=Big+bank+also+reveals+it+has+ceased+corporate+lending+to+thermal+coalmines%2C+but+it+still+funds+oil+and+gas+extraction+businessesFollow+our+Australia+news+live+blog+for+latest+updatesGet+our+breaking+n\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#0073aa;text-decoration:none\">\u2193 Download Audio<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>N Shorts Westpac says Labor\u2019s expanded first home buyers scheme saw 150% jump in loan applications Big bank also reveals it has ceased corporate lending to thermal coalmines, but it still funds oil and gas extraction businessesFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastHome [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowl-PACw:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-shorts-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14064,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14063\/revisions\/14064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}