Thanks for all your responses!If the property was sold at a loss, though, and the only "gain", so to speak, was the $5 sale price, how can the vendor claim to have the money ready for CGT purposes?Or would the cheaper option be to just transfer the property into a relative's name, not sell it?

god_of_money – thanks for the reply, but what exactly do you mean by "answer the ATO"? As in why I sold it for the amount I did? Surely an IP owner has the right to even give away his/her property, if they choose to do so, and not have to explain themselves as to why they did it? Maybe I'm getting too far ahead and misinterpreting your…[Read more]

Thanks, gibbo1! Most useful answer so far (still thanks to most who replied). Time to update my research.Thank you!

I'm well aware of the risks, but I choose to minimise them as much as possible! Hence being sensible by choosing not to risk my actual house on something everyone knows is riskier!Not confused at all – just more cautious (who doesn't want maximum output as a result of minimum input?). All right and kind comments, but yours!Good luck!

That's the interest rate I was quoted a couple of years ago by a broker. It was either incorrect or not fully explained to me (apparently it's that high, from what he told me, because the risk with these type of investment properties is also higher). I'm only sharing the information I have, but still not getting anywhere with regards to my…[Read more]

That's the yield I've seen mentioned in articles about this sort of investment. Whether that's real and actual in the current market conditions, I realise I need to do my research on that. My main concern, as mentioned, was that it won't make sense to have such a return p.a. against a potentially double interest rate!