Are high income multiples on their way out?

Mortgage affordability tests introduced in 2014 have effectively eliminated loans with loan-to-income multiples of 5 times or higher. As interest rates begin to normalise, affordability tests will put further downward pressure on the maximum size of mortgage advances. Yet with a meaningful rise in rates still some way off, such pressures are not imminent.

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