butterfield
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Property 1 - Home - value approx 850/900.000 - mortgaged 550,000. Repayments presently and for past 30 months interest only = 1500. Reverting to 3900 per month
Property 2 - Rental - No mortgage. Value approx 300,000. Income 1300 per month.
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On property 1 - home -(mortgage is tracker @ 1.95%), have been interest only for 30 months as we cannot afford to pay full amount (self employed and income down). We are couple mid 50's and cannot extend mortgage because of our age. We have offered to pay part of principal (one third) to bank and waiting for reply. We are reluctant to sell this house as was purchased in 2004 for 1.2m and refurbished at cost of 200,000 = total investment of 1.4m, this would be huge loss. If we choose this option we will need to buy another home and are worried about getting another mortgage. Although in long run we do want to sell this property, was always our plan but hoped we could take capital out of it when we traded down.
If we sell property 2 we estimate we will have maybe 200/240,000 profit after CGT - we would then pay off part of mortgage 110,000 which would leave mortgage repayment of approx 3000 per month, which is possible as we are now paying 1500 per month and would use balance of capital to fund the other 1500 per month on ongoing basis, untill we can sell home and trade down.
Which decision is best ... any advice welcome??
Property 2 - Rental - No mortgage. Value approx 300,000. Income 1300 per month.
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On property 1 - home -(mortgage is tracker @ 1.95%), have been interest only for 30 months as we cannot afford to pay full amount (self employed and income down). We are couple mid 50's and cannot extend mortgage because of our age. We have offered to pay part of principal (one third) to bank and waiting for reply. We are reluctant to sell this house as was purchased in 2004 for 1.2m and refurbished at cost of 200,000 = total investment of 1.4m, this would be huge loss. If we choose this option we will need to buy another home and are worried about getting another mortgage. Although in long run we do want to sell this property, was always our plan but hoped we could take capital out of it when we traded down.
If we sell property 2 we estimate we will have maybe 200/240,000 profit after CGT - we would then pay off part of mortgage 110,000 which would leave mortgage repayment of approx 3000 per month, which is possible as we are now paying 1500 per month and would use balance of capital to fund the other 1500 per month on ongoing basis, untill we can sell home and trade down.
Which decision is best ... any advice welcome??