Loan Value Ratio (LVR), can sometimes be confusing to home buyers, especially new buyers as they enter the property market for the first time. It’s very important to have a clear understanding from the start of what LVR means and what it provides in respect to your borrowing capacity.
The Seek Financial team have put together information that will hopefully give you a clearer understanding about what LVR is, how it’s calculated and why it’s so important in your quest to buy property.
In the 2021-22 Federal Budget, Josh Frydenberg announced a new scheme to enable single parents to get on the property ladder sooner. Under this scheme, from July 1st, 2021, 10,000 Family Home Guarantees will be made available over four financial years to allow single parents to buy a new home with a deposit of as little as 2%. This will help them to avoid the cost of lenders mortgage insurance (LMI) that usually applies to low deposit borrowers.
Buying your first home is a huge milestone and whilst it’s a very exciting time in your life, it is potentially one of the biggest investments you’ll ever make. On average it can take first home buyers five years to save enough for a 20% home loan deposit. You will be happy to know that there are ways to get onto the property ladder a bit quicker, such as the First Home Loan Deposit Scheme, the First Home Super Saver Scheme, and a Parental Guarantee (otherwise known as a Family Pledge).
First home buyers are keeping brokers and lenders very busy at the moment as they take advantage of the many different grants and schemes available to them. Home and land packages seem to be particularly attractive with buyers looking at growth corridors where they can see an equity increase in their property going forward.
The latest vacant land data demonstrates that even with the COVID-19 pandemic ravaging the country, the South East Queensland land market displayed a 4.26% increase in lot sales from the corresponding financial year.
With historically low interest rates available at the moment, now could be the perfect time to get your foot on the property ladder. If you are thinking about buying your first home, you’ll be very happy to hear that there are quite a few government schemes available to you. This will probably be one of the largest investments you’ll make in your life and you will undoubtedly feel a little overwhelmed (and quite excited), so for your convenience, we’ve put together a list of all the incentives available to first home buyer, owner occupiers in Queensland.