The Mortgage Down solution for owning an Investment Property and paying off your Home Loan sooner

What is Mortgage Down?

Mortgage Down is a combination home loan and an investment home loan licensed through Loan Reducer with an ATO product ruling that allows you to reduce your home loan interest rate and own your own home sooner.

Mortgage down is a lending product for the property investor who also owns their own home. Mortgage Down was developed after a 2-year submission to the ATO by Loan reducer who holds the Licencing and the Australian Tax Office (ATO) Product Ruling PR 2021/13. The first product ruling was 2017/6.

How does it work?

Mortgage Down is a specialised loan product consisting of 2 loans. The borrower must to be a homeowner and a property investor. The home loan is a low rate principal and interest mortgage on your own home. The other is an interest-only loan on the investment property.
We aggregate the overall debt approved to reduce the debt on the non-deductible home loan.

It has been tried in various formats over the last few years but has always been knocked back by the ATO. It usually involved capitalising interest on the investment loan. Brokers and investors lost interest as it became too hard. Now with an Australian Tax Office (ATO) Product Ruling PR 2021/13 the product has significant benefit to the home owner with an investment property.
It is the new way to buy an investment property

Under the P&I home loan has a floor rate of RBA +0.5% currently 0.6%%
The Investment loan rate has a ceiling rate of currently 5.69%

By having a low home loan rate, it enables you to payoff your home loan sooner by keeping your repayments the same as your pre Mortgage Down rate. This allows you to build equity faster in your own home

Ask your advisor.

Because it allows much more flexibility with your finances. E.g. If you are saving $500/month by using the Mortgage Down solution there are many more options available to you.
Pay off a credit card, increase offset account, buy additional property, help kids with first property purchased etc. whenever you can save money you have more options

Ask your advisor.

It won’t take into account the time and money saved over the long term and the ability to pay off the home sooner.
Remember Mortgage Down rates are linked to the RBA and with a flat yield curve over the foreseeable future it means you could have years of low home loan repayments

The search for the lowest rate is a race to the bottom and may be temporary. Clients should have the best solution to their situation over the longer term. Interest rates are only part of the equation when considering the best for the client

The product is for clients who own their own home and are looking to buy an investment property or other income producing assets.
They may wish to refinance their existing properties or even add an additional investment property or shares to their portfolio using the Mortgage down solution

The TMD’s are available on the website.  Download – Prime-Investment-Variable or Download – Prime-Owner-Occupied-Variable

Origin is the Lender. They are part of Columbus Capital group and have ware house facility through the local banking system.

It does. It is the most innovative lending product to come out in years that helps the home owner/property investor own their own home sooner and create financial flexibility for the borrower

Financial planners and Accountants can see the significant benefits of Mortgage Down but can only advise their clients not implement or transact the loan
As brokers are the only advisers who can write the loan all clients must be referred to an accredited Mortgage Down brokers. This puts brokers in an ideal position who have (or are developing) relationships with accountants, financial planners and other introducers.

Contact the director at customerservices@cschl.com.au

The simple answer is yes If you have your own ACL. Once you are accredited we will send you an agreement to complete and you can get started immediately.
However, if you are a Credit Rep with one of the aggregators they may not allow you to use Mortgage Down. We are  on some of the smaller specialised aggregators panel. You will have to contact your aggregator and discuss. Some of the aggregators do allow you to write Mortgage Down others review on a case by case basis.
Contact us for our experience in this area to see if we can help.

Yes, we can help you with some marketing material. We also have a video which outlines the product for client. This is available for you to brand as your own with contact details and voice over. Please see out website for details of video.

Q&A for the Investor

Chances are they may not know of it. Also a number of brokers do not understand the benefits of Mortgage Down or have not been accredited.
Mortgage Down is a specialised product available to the home owner/ investor only. It is available only from Mortgage Managers who are licensed through Loan reducer who have the ATO ruling

Your accountant or financial planner can discuss it with you but it can only be facilitated and written by an accredited Mortgage Down broker.
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