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The following tables show the changes in the numbers, and the average value of Mortgages taken, for Australian First Home Buyers property transactions, up to June 2011.

Number of FHB sales in each 12 month period ended:

12 Months ended	Number of Sales	% of all loans
Jun-2001	127,088	23.1%
Jun-2002	143,885	22.9%
Jun-2003	101,306	16.0%
Jun-2004	88,400	13.4%
Jun-2005	103,664	16.0%
Jun-2006	127,995	17.6%
Jun-2007	130,597	16.9%
Jun-2008	129,149	17.6%
Jun-2009	165,108	24.3%
Jun-2010	138,922	21.4%
Jun-2011	90,210	15.6%

The number of property sales to first home buyers in the last 12 months has dropped considerably in both the total number, and in the proportion of first home buyers to all property purchases that were financed during that period.

First Home Buyers Average Loan Size

The average loan size to First Home Buyers, over the last 2 years, has changed from $270,200 in June 2009 to $280,200 in June 2011.

This is an increase of only 3.7%, which, for a 2 year period is not very high.
The lowest average in this 2 years was $269,700 (July 2009) and the highest was $289,700 (Dec 2009).

Month and Year	Average Loan	% of all loans
Jun-2009	$270,200	27.1%
Jul-2009	$269,700	25.3%
Aug-2009	$270,800	24.7%
Sep-2009	$274,600	26.1%
Oct-2009	$275,500	26.0%
Nov-2009	$283,900	22.6%
Dec-2009	$289,700	21.5%
Jan-2010	$282,500	21.0%
Feb-2010	$281,600	18.6%
Mar-2010	$284,500	16.4%
Apr-2010	$289,600	16.9%
May-2010	$286,600	16.5%
Jun-2010	$283,800	16.2%
Jul-2010	$286,500	15.9%
Aug-2010	$283,200	15.5%
Sep-2010	$280,400	15.9%
Oct-2010	$283,600	15.4%
Nov-2010	$278,800	15.6%
Dec-2010	$281,700	15.8%
Jan-2011	$274,300	15.2%
Feb-2011	$277,000	14.9%
Mar-2011	$279,500	16.0%
Apr-2011	$285,400	15.8%
May-2011	$286,200	15.4%
Jun-2011	$280,200	15.2%

All Data is compiled from the ABS 5609 Housing Finance reports.

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