{
  "id": 11324514,
  "title": "Mortgage stress surges with worse to come",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/02/mortgage-stress-surges-with-worse-to-come",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-10-02T01:00:01.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "MacroBusiness",
    "slug": "macrobusiness",
    "url": "https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2026/10/mortgage-stress-surges-with-worse-to-come/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Roy Morgan’s latest mortgage stress survey shows that 32.3% of mortgage households were at risk of mortgage stress in August, with 22.7% extremely at risk: Mortgage stress was tracking at its highest levels since the peak of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) in mid-2008, when the official cash rate hit 7%. The Reserve Bank of The post Mortgage stress surges with worse to come appeared first on…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}