The ATO will consider your intention – if your intention is to buy and sell for profit then the time period that you hold it for is irrelevant – you are in business and you will not qualify for the CGT discount. This will particularly apply if you do a lot of renos. The CGT discount only applies to investments.

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Thanks guys.

My query rose from the seminar where people were talking of settlement periods of 4 months – are vendors happy to accept these ?