Over the past couple of years there have been many changes that have dramatically reduced your borrowing capacity. The Financial Services Royal Commission, government has put pressure on the banks to reduce investment lending and a directive to tighten lending standards just to name a few. If you are unable to borrow then your only alternative is to invest your after-tax income/savings… and that is a much slower path to wealth.
Be more proactive and plan ahead
Gone are the days when clients would buy an investment property on the weekend and ring us on Monday requesting us to organise a new loan. It just too risky to do that these days (then again, arguably, it’s always been too risky). It is important to plan ahead as credit is much tighter these days and credit polices are changing regularly. This will help you project your future borrowing requirements thereby allowing your mortgage broker and you to work out the best time to make any required applications. You must be more strategic.
You must maximise borrowable equity
In a constantly changing credit market it becomes even more critical to maximise your borrowable equity. Borrowable equity is the amount of unused loan facilities that you have access to. Maximising your borrowable equity requires you to proactively increase your credit limits to 80% of your property/s current market value.
The three common benefits of maximising your borrowable equity include:
(1) To fund future investment(s) and/or other uses such as home upgrade, renovation, etc.
(2) To maximise your loan buffers in case of any unforeseen changes or expenses – the more access to credit you have, the lower your overall risk as you have adequate financial resources to weather most storms.
(3) In case your borrowing capacity changes in the future e.g. start a family and go down to one income, change employment, move overseas, property values decrease, credit policy changes, etc. We never know what is around the corner.
Start early and don’t waste time
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