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wow, Monique Wakelin advocating buying only in inner-city areas… so what’s actually new in that article?
quote from the article: “She uses the comparison between two $300,000 properties – both delivering a total return of 15 per cent a year. The first property does that with 10 per cent capital growth and 5 per cent gross rental yield. The second with 5 per cent capital growth and 10 per cent rental yield.
Wakelin says over 20 years the property delivering 10 per cent capital growth would be valued just over $2 million. The property that generated the higher rental yield by comparison would have a value of $795,000. Clearly a prime property with good capital growth is the better long-term bet but for a lot of people the prime inner-city properties are out of their price range.”
well, example a is going to restrict my borrowings whereas example b is going to add to my servicability allowing me to buy more places…
It’s the old horses for courses argument… personally I agree with an approach somewhere between Wakelin and McKnight.
As i said elsewhere: SEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!
hehe. But seriously, highly gearing is a bloody risk. Some people are gambling over their heads in property :o( If people *are* too highly geared, they should sell up now while prices are still maitainging themselves. Forced sales are a disaster.
and I agree with Kay, those who are too highly geared will find themselves in strife… those who aren’t should be fine… it’s bloody common sense people!!!!
I would think that always having 20% equity is still being very highly geared!!
I’m at between 25-30% at the moment, and would like to reborrow that 5-10% back out, but the banks are saying no, as they see us as being ‘too highly geared’.
I would think that always having 20% equity is still being very highly geared!!
k, i beg to differ on this, 20% equity to me seems to low, if major banks offered 90% LVR, id run and grab that opportunity and go crazy like Broadway style.
If the other banks follow NAB, gearing will be standard at 25%- not the 20% we’re used to. It’s gonna be harder for first home buyers to be able to save the 25% deposit- god!
Mel- I think 20% equity is not much. Means you own 200k and owe 800k. That kind of pressure would do my head in. I am a bit debt averse really- well, to some extent.
You might have to to back to work, Mel! Seriously- how can the plan to pay it all off occur if one isn;t working?
You might have to to back to work, Mel! Seriously- how can the plan to pay it all off occur if one isn;t working?
[!] Tell me about it. In fact, I had to go into work yesterday for a job interview – the rehab people have finally found me another one. It would have been great too – would have got to travel to Cairns, Darwin, Perth, Melbourne and probably Sydney – all with nice travel allowances. However, I decided that I really didn’t want to go back, and was planning to resign in July. These guys needed somebody who would work their butt off for at least a year, and it really needed to be the same person (involved in building the new Patrol Boats for the Navy – the ones they use to catch the boat people, and illegal whalers and stuff) for that time frame.
The plan to pay it off – well, all I want to do is make sure that the expenses are less than the rent, and I will live off the rest. I’m not fussed about paying it off. In fact, I want to borrow a couple more million – so then my loans become the banks problem, and they’ll be really nice to me[]
As I said in another post, I’m looking at buying rabbits too![] that will help with my servicability
What about this, you and me go into a JV, and we both can borrow not just a couple of million, but tens of million? [:o)] I have an excellent banker who gives nice and very attractive interest rate discounts? [:o)]
Personally, with things as they are at the moment, I don’t think there’s too much risk of interest rates moving beyond 7.5% in the next few years.
I think the article assumes that investors keep gearing levels high (maybe on an I/O basis) – my advice is that if you have a plan for getting into debt, you also need a plan to get out of debt. Nearly all our loans are P&I.
Cheers,
Steve McKnight
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