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Evening,

Should you opt to clear the current mortgage loan, you will be eligible for 80% loan on your next purchase. 20% down payment of $1.2 mil is $240k. ABSD of 7 to 15% is payable depending on your citizenship status. After inclusion of standard stamp duty and miscellaneous expenses, you will require addition of $380k.
Should you opt to proceed with getting another mortgage loan, you can only obtain max of 50% loan. Along with ABSD, SSD and miscellaneous expenses, you will require around $320k cash.
Do note that the ABSD is computed based on 15%.

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Mike Lim
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Hi,

The max loan for your 2nd property would be 50% and ABSD payable is 7% if you are SC. Is that something worth considering? Otherwise, there could be other ways to workaround we can explore. Thanks and hope to assist further.

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Good day sir / madam

You can avoid paying additional buyer stamp duty ABSD if you are willing to sell your 1st property.

After selling 1st property , you and your mrs can each buy a property , using 1 name only per property to avoid ABSD .

Kindly contact me for a no-obligations chat for your property needs .

My charges are 1% comm for exclusive selling rights to your property or 2% for open listing .

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Seriously, this isn't the best of time to look into a 2nd property for investment if any form of loan is required. If there is a need to purchase a 2nd property for own stay, perhaps you should then look into restructuring your portfolio according to your financial profiling. We will need to know more about your exact financial standing in order to better advise on what could then be a best option moving forward. Let me know more details about your plans moving forward and we can discuss further?

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Happy lunar new year to you, investor!

My suggestion is either to decouple or sell off this property and purchase two properties.

1) Decouple. Let's say you will to become 100% owner of your current property.

You must be financially capable to take over your wife's ownership which free up your wife's name to purchase a second property without being subject to 7% ABSD and ability to take up max 80% bank loan.

If your wife purchase solely by herself, initial outlay will be around 23% of $1.2M = $270.6k. You still have around $230k to take over your wife's share.

i) 5% cash and 15% CPF OA or cash downpayment
ii) estimated 3% buyer's stamp duty

To make this happen, you must pay whatever your wife paid in CPF back to her in cash and be able to take on the loan by yourself.

Other expenses will be:

i) buyer's stamp duty on her share of property
ii) legal fees

If you are keen to explore this method, I will be more than willing to share with you.

2) sell off current property to purchase two properties under two individual names.

This method will be more straightforward, dont need to think that much.

As you see that even if you pay off your current $400k loan, yes you can obtain 80% bank loan but you wont be able to pay the initial outlay of 30% ($354.6k). You will be lacking of at least $254.6k.

i) 20% downpayment
ii) estimated 3% buyer's stamp duty (BSD)
iii) 7% additional buyer's stamp duty (ABSD) as Singaporean

Even if you never pay off current loan, you need initial outlay of at least 60% ($714.6K) which you will lack of at least $214.6k all because you can only loan up to max 50%.

i) 50% downpayment
ii) estimated 3% buyer's stamp duty (BSD)
iii) 7% additional buyer's stamp duty (ABSD) as Singaporean

Hope my sharing is beneficial to your decision making.

By the way, may I know what's your intention in getting a second property? Investment I suppose?

Probably you can share more information with me so I will be in a better position to advise and assist you further.

Hope to hear from you soon! Cheers.

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Hi buyer,

That could be possible with certain steps taken, but it depends on your situation. Do give me a call before we take this further.

Thanks and regards,
Teck Chuan, Ng
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Hi Sir,

In my opinion, the best bet will be to decouple the current property from your wife. After the decoupling is done, the other party can proceed to purchase the property without having to pay the Additional Buyer Stamp Duty (7%) for a 2nd property purchase.

However, in view of the current market situation, it may not be wise to purchase a 2nd property for an investment as rental yields may not be sufficient to cover the mortgage payment at the current price.

May I know what is the main motivation behind buying a 2nd property so that I can advise you better.

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Nick Tan
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Hi,
Fyi, ABSD of 7% (for Singaprean, 2nd property) will be payable and the max loan is 50% of the valuation price. I would like to assist you to work out the financial plan.

To assist and advise you more in details, kindly drop me an email for me to share.

I am contactable at my mobile or email.

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