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YOU WONT BELIEVE: Investor lending continues to outpace owner occupiers - You Need To See This

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ABS data shows new housing loans hit $29.2 billion, 19.1 per cent higher than a year earlier. (Lukas Coch/AAP PHOTOS)

Climbing property prices have taken the average owner-occupier mortgage to a record high of almost $636,600.

The average loan size gained another 1.7 per cent nationally in June, as Friday's Australian Bureau of Statistics numbers show, buoyed by swelling housing values from mid-sized capitals.

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