Wanting to rent out our house

Hi everyone

this is my first post on here and I had a quick look around and couldn't find an answer to my question so i really hope I am not asking something that has already been asked. We bought our property as owner occupiers in 2007 and have lived here since. We have just looked at selling our property as we would like to move several hours away from where we are, however it is not the best time to sell so we thought we would look at renting the house out while we rent somewhere else and sell when the market picks up a bit.

i am just curious as we didn't purchase the house with an investment loan, part of the loan is fixed and part is variable. Will we have to change the loans to investment loans for tax purposes? Or will they be okay to be left as they are just standard loans.

Thanks in advance for any advise!!!

Kell