Hi lance1,

You would need to check with a qualified accountant, but my understanding is that all holding costs plus any interest expense as a result of a loan can be added to ascertain the cost base.

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Tom

Hi Sayan,

I think in that case you can only claim 20% of the deduction over each of the first two years, and then it is no longer deductible. Like Jamie, not an accountant so you would need to get this clarified.

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Tom

Hi propertyboy,

I suppose it all depends on the type of service you get from the property managers, but in my opinion 8-9% is high, and 4 weeks letting fee is definitely way too much. My one charges me 5.5% and letting fee equal to 1.1 weeks rent.

Make sure you ask them what they provide for you for engaging their services (i.e regular…[Read more]

Just reiterating what the above posters have advised, you will generally find that boutique apartments in smaller complexes will have better long term capital gain than larger complexes.

Footscray itself isn't that bad of a suburb to invest in, much improved area from what it once was. Just need to do your research and see if it's appropriate for…[Read more]

I must have missed the memo. Since when and who are you allowed to refinance with up to 95% LVR?

Only 95% refinances I know are dollar for dollar moves. Anything involving debt consolidation and/or equity release is max. 90% from what I know.

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Tom

And here in Victoria it changed from body corporate to owners corporation a few years back.

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Tom

And here in Victoria it changed from body corporate to owners corporation a few years back.

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Tom

Its the same thing. Some people refer to it as strata fees/levies, others as body corp fees.

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Tom

Richard, its one of those weird ones. I would agree with you that technically the OP isn't self employed as their only income is a set salary and they wont be receiving any variable income via company profits due to not being a shareholder, but as soon as lenders see an applicant is a director of a company, they automatically assume self…[Read more]

With the above structure or the initial split loans against the PPOR, they should both have the same affect deductibility wise.

As you mentioned you have a package account, you would most likely have an offset account. Just link that to the PPOR loan portion to use as a tool to pay off the non-deductible debt sooner.

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Tom

Not cross-collaterised as the investment property is unencumbered. Loan is against the one security only.

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Tom

OP is looking to change to interest only repayments, ANZ obviously looking for new application, new val, etc, so LMI might apply.

However as Jamie mentioned, would be an difference in premium and not new if LMI has increased.

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Tom

Terry, would it be accurate in assuming that the OP wouldn't be eligible under the 6 year CGT rule even if they met all the other conditions if it arose in the future due to it being a IP for the first two weeks?

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Tom

What I find puzzling is why Julia comes out and offers a $50 million dollar assistance package to retrain 500 Ford workers ($100K to train each person??????), when every week small businesses are closing down with 5 or 10 workers and she and her Labor party couldn't give 2 hoots about forking out money trying to find them new employment and leave…[Read more]

If WA get to the point of recession, then the economy in this country is in bad shape no matter what anyone says.

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Tom

Also depends on how desperate the vendor is to sell. If they aren't, then I doubt you could take advantage of the situation.

Do your research, figure out what the fair market value is of the property and take it from there. If the vendor isn't willing then move on.

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Tom

Banks take into account a number of things before they will approve the loan. Obviously the stronger the application the more chance you have of being approved as it helps de-risk and make it more attractive to the lender.

Stable employment history, low consumer debt, clean credit file, decent assets position, high servicing capability, it all…[Read more]

The front one would still be CGT exempt. The 2nd house would become your PPOR however if you sold it down the track you would only be partially exempt as there was a period before building when it wasn't your PPOR and subject to CGT.

You would need to confirm this with a decent accountant.

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Tom

Obviously you would need to seek out some professional opinion on this but from what I can remember:

Option 1 if you sell the subdivided land – Yes, you are liable for CGT as it is no longer classified as a PPOR.
Option 2 if you built at the back and moved from the front house to that – The front house wouldn't be liable for CGT as it was your…[Read more]

As Terry mentioned in Vic spouses can buy property from each other and at no stamp duty. So to expand on his suggestion a strategy could be to borrow 20% plus cost against your current PPOR and the 80% against the investment (no cross-collaterisation). IO with offset. All deductible.

Then in a few years when you move into the investment, one of…[Read more]