Hi experts,
I have recently spoken to my finance broker about improving my servicing situation.
The question is: “Can positive cashflow from commercial properties be considered additional
income stream and therefore help improve servicing situation for new borrowing going forward?”I am not getting a straight and definitive answer other than not 100% of the positive cashflow may be
considered, which is not unexpected anyway. Fair to say that I am getting mixed and conflicting
responses from different sources.Therefore, I’d like to run this by some experts on this forum to get some insights if this again depends
on one lender to another and which lender is more inclined to favour the borrowing.The answer will have a fundamental and direct effect on my investing plan and if I can leverage on the
commercial IP cashflow as the main or sole servicing to continue the journey.Thanks,
FXDYes and no.
Normally depending on the security lenders will take between 60-70% of the Gross rent so that will be added to your income for servicing but the downside being most Commercial loans are done over a 15 year term (odd exception) so the monthly repayments of principal & interest and the higher interest usually associated with Commercial lending will reduce the amount you can borrow.
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Richard Taylor | Australia's leading private lender
Yes even positive cash flow property can hurt serviceability because the notional repayment the lender takes exceeds the cash flow.
Terryw | Structuring Lawyers Pty Ltd / Loan Structuring Pty Ltd
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Commercial generally won’t help your residential lending capacity all that much. In terms of commercial though it can help, or be treated as neutral/excluded from calculations – allowing you to keep rolling into new purchases as long as you have sufficient deposit funds.
Corey Batt | Precision Funding
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Thanks guys.
Pardon me for not clarifying my question right at the start.
I only intend to focus on commercial IP going forward and therefore the servicing improvement question
is solely intended for continuing and/or growing more commercial IP using commercial IP cashflow.Rgds,
FXDDon’t worry about it too much then – the variety of commercial products at this time means that even should your serviceability be constrained with time, there’s freestanding products available through certain brokers accredited with commercial lending panels which can be used to allow you to continue purchasing without your existing portfolios dragging your borrowing capacity down.
Most people will run out of deposit funds before they run out of capacity.
Corey Batt | Precision Funding
http://www.precisionfunding.com.au
Email Me | Phone MeInvestment Focused Finance Strategist - servicing Australia-wide
Most people will run out of deposit funds before they run out of capacity.
Thanks Corey and above statement is so very true especially when the deposit/equity is coming from
resi IP and/or PPOR.Personally I have not been successful due to existing servicing and no lender is willing to factor in
the future/projected commercial cashflow to service equity draw and some are outright against using
resi equity for commercial deals.It seems the only way for me to continue the investing journey is to sell IP (resi or commercial) to
raise equity and then go again, and repeat the process every few years. This may hopefully achieve the
income/cashflow objective into my retirement but may not help me grow the size of my investment taking
a passive approach.Rgds,
FXD
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