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发表于 2-1-2014 19:57:31
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4. All Owners to be Borrowers / Guarantors to be Joint-Borrowers
MAS now required all owners of a property to be borrowers, and all guarantors to be joint-borrowers. Borrowers will be subject to the loan-to-value regulations. Essentially, the government is clamping down on home buyers who engage in proxy arrangements with other parties to intentionally dodge MAS restrictions that they would otherwise face.
For example, currently, someone with no outstanding home loan can borrow up to 80% of a property’s value. Someone with existing home loans can borrow a lot less (50% for the 2nd home loan and 40% for third and beyond).
As such, in the past, some home buyers would simply list another credit-worthy person (often the spouse or child) as a guarantor should the financial institutions require some “mortgage repayment surety” from them when buying a house. They would be considered a joint owner of the house. However, the guarantor did not technically have to be a borrower (hence not subject to a lower LTV % when he or she buyers the next property).
*Note: A guarantor is someone who promises to take on the home loan obligation, should the borrower default on it.
This meant you could have once borrowed up to 80% to buy a house, list your wife as a guarantor to secure the loan, and then have your wife loan up to 80% to buy another house (since she technically has no existing home loan tied to her name).
Bottom line is: A husband and wife team just got two 80% home loans when the government thinks that there should only have been one. In the scenario above, the wife will only be allowed up to 50% financing for the next house she buys.
How does this affect you?
The tactic we described above can no longer be used. Anyone who is an owner will be considered a borrower and this will affect the loan financing % for any future property purchase. Any guarantor will be treated equally as a borrower and his/her loan-to-value eligibility for any future property purchase will be affected accordingly.
*Note: A guarantor is not subject to the TDSR of 60%.
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