Hi Rahrahprincess,Thanks, sound advice there. I am planning on staying in melb for a while yet The flat I'm renting is actually $400 a week and I have a rather long suffering flatmate, who is tiring of finding sequins and cotton everywhere! I would like to be able to contain the mess for both our sanity. He would move with me if I purchased, bu…[Read more]

Thanks for the feedback. I'm afraid I don't know anything about selling into trust, could you explain how that works? Is there any way I can get around the capital gains tax issue too? I'm not desperate to purchase a property, I just feel that I'm really not making the most of the cash that's locked into the house, or minimising the tax I've got t…[Read more]