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Hi
I’m in New Zealand on holiday at the moment and have found an a promising potential investment property up for auction. Unfortunately the auction is within the next couple of days and settlement is only a few day after that. If I am the sucessful bidder, I will have only a very limited time to organise finance. I don’t want to borrow from a New Zealand lender and want to use the equity in my Sydney home to pay for the investment property. My problem is this: I won’t be able to organise the valuation etc required to borrow against my Sydney unit before the settlement date and the only way I could pay for the NZ property is to cash in some other investments (I don’t have any other investment propertys).
My query is this – Can I pay for the property in cash (from my cashed in investment as above) and then somehow use the investment mortgage (from my Sydney unit – organised after the settlement date) to put this against the investment property in New Zealand and treat this as a normal geared investment. Or, is this not even remotely possible as I guess the settlement paperwork will show this as paid in cash (no mortgage)? Hmmm… I’ve just read this through again and probably haven’t explained it very well – hope you can understand what I’m asking.Cheers
Tim
Yes you can pay cash for your house and then get a mortgage later. But beware of tax implications!!
If you pay cash, then there will be no debt on the property (obviously), if you then get a loan, what is the purpose of the loan? It is not to buy an investment property – as you already have it. It would be to mortgage someting you already own. Therefore the interest would probably not be tax deductible.
However, if the cash came from a LOC, then it is a different story. Drawing money from a LOC is really borrowing money. You new loan will be replacing the existing loan. Therefore it would probably be ok to claim.
Please check this with an accountant.
Terryw
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