This is an invitation to use your investment in a residential property to earn higher, faster, accelerated yields monthly over up to ten years (plus a priority share of future capital growth) compared to the lower net rental yields currently on offer monthly (often net 1.5% to 2.5% pa but sometimes 4% pa or higher).

In the conventional system:

1. Net rental returns vary from property to property and are almost impossible to predict accurately ten years into the future, from a typical residential lease.
2. Landlords who conventionally rent retain (and wait for) all of the uncertain long term capital growth[1].

Under the Assquire system, an investor sells the property to a Mortgage Alternative (MA) buyer (who has a mortgage over your property behind your financier’s and a registered lease to protect their contracted interest as buyer) whilst they buy it and settle their purchase over a ten year period with a lease to occupy. The investor is not renting it to the MA buyer; they have sold it to them with ten years to pay – this is called a deferred settlement.

You (the investor) receive the higher return monthly along the way because you are sharing capital growth with the MA occupier/buyer who has bought the home from you with deferred settlement, and a lease whilst they live in it up to the settlement date.

As seller, you forego any excess future capital growth above the pre-agreed price (currently an indexation of around current market value by 1.5% pa).

You will retain the first 1.5% pa capital growth under the Assquire® Contract of Sale terms.

The buyer thus enjoys the flip side of the coin – the capital growth above that (if any) at time of settlement and only if they settle with you. They also enjoy the comfort and certainty of fixing their Purchase Price today, together with the rights to occupy the property essentially as if it were their own immediately.

Other terms of the contract of sale are designed to mitigate your risks and theirs.

To get access to excess capital growth and locking the price today, they pay you up to an average 40-60% higher gross rents (net of management fees) from today.

These rents are contracted and agreed up front between seller and buyer, just like they are with any other residential tenancy lease and apply unchanged for a period of up to ten years, proving both parties with even more certainty.

Assquire® [2] is a new asset acquisition, financing, management and occupation system delivered to market across two websites: this one is for investors and home buyers to explain the Assquire system + the dedicated listings site BuyOrInvest.com.au.

The MA buyer does have restricted rights to exit, so they need to be serious about buying your property, just like they do with other properties when taking a mortgage but all or a substantial part of their 5% paid up front is at risk if they do exit, and they are making mortgage like payments (much higher than rent) so they are considered unlikely to do so unless they encounter a material adverse personal event. To use MA and sign an Assquire® contract with an investor, they must be serious about buying the home and must meet our strict credit standards to qualify. This is a Mortgage Alternative – not a rent alternative.

Footnotes:

[1] Net yields are almost impossible to quantify because they differ with each property. However CoreLogic RP Data’s February 2019 Monthly Housing and Economic Chart Pack  report records GROSS rental yields of  4.0% nationally (net rental yields would be much lower). In Queensland, these are somewhat higher, and our numbers are currently based off an average 4.5% gross yield for Brisbane. Some properties will achieve higher conventional gross rents; some lower.

[2] New Zealand Patent No 582650 granted July 2, 2013; Singapore Patent No 182242 granted October 31, 2012; South Africa Patent No. 2010/00299 granted 29 September 2010; Australian Trade Mark No 1438777 in class 36 registered March 16,2012. Trade marks for Assquire® also registered in thirty other countries including Europe, United States of America, China, Australia and Singapore.

This is a mortgage alternative, not a rental model. Your Mortgage Alternative or MA buyer, once they sign the contracts with you, has bought the home off you, and potentially can move into the property within as little as 7 to 20 days, with a ten year lease during the deferred settlement period (which ends early if they settle early, but they must still pay you the pre-agreed ten year price if they do so).

The MA buyer pays a higher amount than conventional rent to you. The amount is similar to what they would pay if they were settling in 60 days with a conventional 25 year mortgage, plus their property ownership costs. In return for getting any excess growth over the pre-agreed price at 1.5% pa plus uplift payment (if applicable), the buyer pays you fixed and flat (but much higher) monthly rent payments under the lease, plus agrees to monthly and moderately annually rising deposit payments until their deposit reaches 10% of the pre-agreed Purchase Price.

See the mortgage comparison tables here for an example for a property with a market value of $500,000 today.

Put simply, the tenant is a buyer effectively purchasing a share of future capital growth on pre-agreed terms. They are buying the home now from you for a fixed pre-agreed ten year price that is very attractive to them, so they will pay you more each month in rent for that privilege, plus a monthly deposit payment to progressively build their equity in the property in the period up to their eventual settlement.

Returns this high for residential property investments are not usually possible, without investors taking development and/or construction risk. This however is normal occupied real estate with no development risk. Under conventional property investment models, a periodic tenancy will permit tenants with no vested interest in your investment property to occupy it, normally for 6 – 12 months.

Assquire® investor returns are “mortgage + property ownership cost equivalent” receipts that price the Assquire®/ Mortgage Alternative product to home buyer consumers on roughly a like for like basis to a consumer owning a property with a 25 year mortgage plus property ownership costs – but without the usual conventional risks to a consumer buyer who takes a conventional mortgage (and the expensive upfront mortgage insurance no one likes to talk too much to buyers about).

The Assquire system also addresses the shrinking affordability of home ownership in Australia, which has become unaffordable for the majority of would-be first home buyers. Assquire investors work with them, not against them. The traditional savings based approach of a deposit of 20% of purchase price or more and a mortgage from a local financial institution no longer presents as a feasible model for home acquisition for a large number of people who want to buy a home.

Assquire® (short for asset + acquire) is an internationally patented pre-mortgage product to facilitate those on good incomes to get into home occupation and purchase faster without paying dead money in rent, and to secure a share of future capital growth by doing something simply not possible with a mortgage – live in the home whilst saving a full deposit to qualify later for a mortgage. An up front saving of as little as 4.5% is required to purchase an Assquire® property from an Assquire investor. This is a pre ‘Mortgage Alternative’ for the home buyer, and a safer higher yielding investment for the investor who relies less on (and doesn’t have to wait for) uncertain future capital growth.

On a $500,000 property, and excluding any personal insurances, MA would cost as little as $747 per week, compared to $755 per week for the combined cost of a 25 year Principal & interest mortgage + property ownership costs. To rent this home, a tenant would typically pay $450 per week in rent (source: Investor Comparison model based on rates as at 16 February, 2019. Conventional mortgage interest rates vary over time but Assquire rents are flat for the duration of the Mortgage Alternative period to settlement).

Assquire® investors typically desire higher net yields monthly, than uncertain and long dated capital returns. That is not available generally anywhere else, than for properties listed on BuyOrInvest.com.au for owner occupiers to buy. So where will investors chasing higher yields list their residential properties in future? The answer is simple: BuyOrInvest.com.au. See the BOI FAQ page  for details and Become a Seller if you want to sell your property on conventional terms to this new channel of Assquire® investors seeking properties to buy and then sell and lease using the Assquire® system.

It is difficult to compare as the gross and net yields on rental properties vary so much from area to area. A Core Logic report at January 2019 noted 4.0% gross rental yield for homes nationally, but rates in South East Queensland have more recently been reported at around gross 4.5%  on average; net yields would be much lower. However, Assquire® properties are 40% to 60% superior here in gross rent terms (net of usual property management fees), with little vacancy risk become of the MA buyer’s hefty and increasing deposit and contractual obligations to buy.

In terms of accelerated cash flows to Assquire® investors, our financial models demonstrate that compared to renting a property out at say 4.5% pa gross rent and with assumed capital growth of 4% pa for ten years, an investor using Assquire® to sell a $500,000 property to an MA buyer during the settlement period (of years) will be better off by between $150 and up to $272 per week on average in most cases.

Result vary with gearing levels and taxable income of the investor.

We also assume the Assquire investor reinvests the surplus cash in their super fund (as many prudent investors do; using the surplus cash to repay part of the investment mortgage early is a similar alternate strategy) .

These numbers are also an average every week for ten years in today’s dollars and after tax. Precise amounts depend on many variables including whether or not the capital gains tax (CGT) general discount is available, and the price of the particular residential property – these numbers are for illustration only.

Results clearly vary for properties from say $250,000 to $1,200,000. This is principally because part of the capital growth return otherwise earned by an investor on sale is effectively brought forward in higher monthly yield to the investor (source: Investor comparison model: 12 February 2019).

We repeat that’s comparing to gross rentals at 4.5%pa. As per January 2019 Core Logic market reports more recently, many Australian homes average only 4%pa gross rental.

Secondly and equally importantly, investors in conventional rental property investment are hoping for higher capital growth over the longer term, which may not materialise. Again, should there be a downturn in property prices, recessionary or other conditions at any time in the next ten years that ultimately produces only an average 2.5% pa growth in residential property prices over the next ten years, our financial models demonstrate that the Assquire® investor would likely be up to 35% better off using Assquire investment and selling with deferred settlement to an MA buyer.

If investors expect boom times over the next ten years, they would be punting the result, as future capital growth rates in residential property are unknown over the next 6 to 10 years.

We believe most accountants and financial planners would conservatively recommend their investor clients to lock in the accelerated cash flows for up to ten years and take advantage of the desire of credit qualified renters and would be home buyers to use MA to purchase a home of their own with our lower entry costs.

From the MA purchaser’s perspective, if this product only requires as little as 4.5% cash up front, involves no debt or mortgage insurance during the MA period before settlement and costs roughly similar to a 25 year P&I mortgage (plus the usual property ownership costs) on a like for like basis over the ten years, and they have immediate enjoyment of home ownership lifestyle benefits – including capital growth over the pre-agreed Purchase Price payable at settlement, the only remaining question is whether the products are correct for the parties involved, compared to other choices available to them.

Investors have a buyer in occupation who is incentivised to look after the home as they gain a part of future capital growth in the property.

The same way all real estate agents find buyers and tenants for properties but with a far bigger army on your and our side.

Unlike conventional real estate agents or property managers, there are far wider channels than just us motivated to find you a buyer/tenant.

Our agency potentially has up to 16,000 mortgage brokers around the country capable of receiving a referral fee if they refer a home buyer or tenant to Assquire investors’ properties that are for sale and lease. We work collaboratively with the entire mortgage broking industry and pay them referral fees for leads – not separate to them in each particular suburb as disparate unconnected businesses. The process of socialising this new income opportunity for Australia’s mortgage brokers is already underway on social media.

There are also up to 53,000 real estate agents and property managers who can win Assquire property management authorities for their own agency from our Assquire system, for the duration of the extended settlement period of up to ten years. To win this lucrative contract, they must locate the MA buyer to buy and lease your property and other Assquire properties. So they are incentivised very clearly to do so.

In addition, we accept applications on line direct from tenants and home buyers (who are motivated to buy in your suburb because of the near halving of the deposit and no mortgage insurance saving them thousands.). Indeed, it is possible in some cases that MA is the ONLY way your MA buyer/tenant can afford to live in a home in the suburb your investment property is in.

In the case of Assquire Family, it is likely your adult children will have chosen the property for you to buy, ahead of others so as the “bank of Mum and Dad”, you already know the buyer (your children) and you are their Assquire investor. No two cases will be the same, but the point is that the search for the MA buyer is far wider than an “open house” and the benefits of MA are compelling to tenants and home buyers wanting to live in the suburb your investment property is in.

Over time, our website BuyOrInvest.com.au will become the “go to” site where MA Buyers will see approved properties for owner occupier purchase (and other properties awaiting approval) that they can purchase with lower upfront costs and move into without awaiting their usual finance and settlement delays on their traditional application for a mortgage (the current system of purchasing), their loan documentation etc. They can’t find similar properties conveniently all brought together for them in the one location on any other website, as it is a site dedicated to the Assquire program.

We’re currently working in with property managers, mortgage brokers, buyer’s agents, builders (who see high foot traffic each week at their display centres) and other channels as well as running our own promotions on social media and elsewhere to offer the tenancy market at large as wide a choice of new and established homes as possible.

We also run information sessions and have a Facebook page for Mortgage Alternative and will widen our direct marketing campaigns as we expand. Word of mouth will also spread the compelling benefits of MA, as outlined on assquire.com.au.

When they find a property they like, there is a buyer application process that they can complete on this website after they have viewed the features and benefits of Mortgage Alternative on this website, and we have taken their applications for credit assessment.

If they cant find a property available right now for them to buy, or are still busy saving for their 4.5% or 5% savings/cash requirement up front (inclusive of any stamp duty), they can look at what Assquire investors might be buying, as this stock may appeal to them as MA Buyers to purchase after the Assquire investor settles a conventional purchase with the investor’s at least 25% equity.

A series of two page flyers are available and are being used by our distribution channels as marketing selling tools to guide Landlords/investors and current tenants/ other MA buyers towards our websites, property listings and our on line application portals for both Assquire Investors and MA Buyers.

Each property manager also has a pool of tenants in their rent roll, some of whom will be potential MA buyers in the suburb your investment property is in. If they show them your property in conjunction with us, that agency wins the property management authority.

So there are many more channels to an MA buyer than the narrow conventional standard rental channels you are used to with a conventional 6 or 12 month lease.

MA buyers that are looking to ‘Move in Now’ with lower up front costs and no mortgage insurance will understand:

“This home can be purchased on a lower deposit and with no mortgage insurance”.

MA buyers can only purchase and lease from an Assquire investor and with less property management hassles.

Conventional distribution channels to investor and consumer markets (such as real estate agents, property management companies, project marketing companies, builders, lenders and mortgage brokers) will bring investors to Assquire investing and MA buyers to purchase and lease in your suburb.

We have policies and processes in place with all our channel partners to ensure product reputation and consistency of marketing, and to offer consumers greater choice in their investment and lifestyle options.

Around 3,000,000 residential homes are currently owned by investors and many of these are managed by licensed real estate agents. This will widen the supply of homes to owner occupiers considerably, under a model where the up front costs of these MA buyers to enter the market are much lower. So expect MA buying and leasing to be extremely popular with quality tenants.

To List to Assquire Investor Buyers (usual settlement terms as per normal conventional market; no changes here):

If you are selling an established home or are a sales agent from another licensed agency looking to attract a wider class of buyers (Assquire investor buyers) to your listing, that is perfectly acceptable and fine.

As there is a small fee for vendors of established homes to use the Assquire system’s dedicated property portal or to otherwise sell TO an Assquire investor to broaden their home’s appeal to a wider audience of buyers, it’s best to include our fee as a marketing outlay in your own Marketing Plan when you win that listing. See FAQ Number 3 of BuyOrInvest.com.au for details.

Commercial channels like building companies are welcome to attract sales through the sales channel also.

There is a very reasonable fee for this, acknowledging you are charged more, as this is a lead generator for your profit making business.

Builder fees are designed to cover hard marketing costs we incur plus a very reasonable fee for service and product development and use. Please contact us if you are a builder or developer to identify the charge, which is very reasonable.

Let’s cover listing fees first.

Frequently asked questions on the listings process are on the dedicated Assquire® system listings website.

To list on BuyOrInvest.com.au to sell to an MA buyer:

To list to occupier home buyers, we first have to assess the property after it has been purchased by the Assquire investor and be appointed as their sales agent, for the extended settlement Assquire sale and lease.

The applicable fees for these services and how Haigslea Residential Limited manages this process for an Assquire investor in respect to both their credit assessment of the Assquire investor applicant and their property assessment are disclosed in the Form 6 Agency appointment.

[ NOTE: Those terms should not trouble the builder or the conventional seller or their sales agent selling TO an Assquire investor. That is a separate second transaction. See earlier FAQ directly above, relating to your sale.]

In addition, during the application process, once you (as the Assquire investor seller) have been conditionally credit assessed, we provide you with our Product Specification which includes all our fee disclosures regarding commission – and something new and innovative that you don’t see in traditional real estate sales. We call it the HAL differential. This is HAL’s property management agents’ fees that are deducted from MA Buyer monthly rent payments, for our oversight of the transaction over the extended settlement period of up to ten years.

You (and your solicitor (if you wish) who will explain any queries you have on the contracts to you and advise you before you decide to proceed to contract with an MA Buyer) receive our Product Specification, after you have been conditionally credit assessed (that first credit step is for free until you are conditionally credit approved as an Assquire investor and wish to proceed further, having reviewed our Product Specification and fees).

So this opportunity to check it all out and seek independent financial and legal advice . This is encouraged well before you proceed to  approved seller status, list the property and then negotiate an Agreed Value with an MA Buyer and sign a contract. We also recommend you speak with your current lender (or have your mortgage broker do so) about your plans to sell and lease an investment property using the Assquire system, before you have been successfully credit assessed by HRL and your property has been assessed by HRL’s Property Risk Unit).

We will provide you (and your mortgage broker if you so consent) with an Assquire Explanatory Guide for Lenders which will make it easy for the lender to understand what is involved. As their security is not impacted and your interest cover for their repayments is only enhanced by Assquire’s much higher rents,  there are likely only positive impacts for the lender in you using Assquire.

The timing of bringing your legal and mortgage broker advisers into the picture is completely up to you, although the solicitor’s certificate or at least a Notice of Acknowledgement from you that you have been granted the opportunity to seek independent legal advice will be required before HRL can consent to the leases, execute them and the MA buyer commence paying you the higher monthly rents.

The Product specification will outline HRL Group’s fees which cover use of the Assquire system in respect to that particular property approved and for a particular MA buyer(s), ongoing property management and our deposit collection monthly from the MA buyer on your behalf.

Here is a quick broad summary of our standard product specification fees as at February 20, 2019 – All fees below are stated exclusive of GST (if any):

• Credit assessment and processing – $250
• Initial Commission on release of Initial Deposit to Seller – 2.75%
• Settlement Commission – up to 4.5% payable at settlement (or novation) of the property in up to ten years time (reduced to just 2% if actual compound capital growth exceeds 4% pa) – this fee is payable by the Assquire® investor (seller) at settlement with the MA buyer (usually at the end of the Assquire® period, but reduced to 3.5% plus GST on any Assquire® investor seller default)
• Direct Debit Dishonour Fee – $25
• Early Termination Fee – nil (However, there is a Take Early Fee levied on the investor if the MA buyer settles early, given the windfall effects of this. Up to 40% of this fee is rebatable in cash to the Assquire invesotr on settlement, under a loyalty program. Terms and conditions apply)
• Property Management Fee – 3.64%pa of Rent payable in 12 instalments monthly in arrears and deducted only on rent collected, as required by law. This fee is payable to an external licenced agency, where they have conjuncted on the transaction with Haigslea Residential and hold the ongoing management authority for the duration of the occupancy period.
• HAL’s Leasing Differential – mentioned above and explained in Product specification
• Listing, valuation and building inspection fees – explained in Form 6 as per link above.

Further details on what is involved is outlined progressively during the application process.

MA Buyers only pay $250 + GST for receiving full credit assessment on www.assquire.com.au/bap

The net returns to Assquire investors are difficult to predict as there are so many variables, just as there are with conventional net rents  – but as a guide, the gross rents are contracted, and gross rents (net of management fees) are projected to often be up to 40-60% higher than conventional average gross rents (after conventional management fees) from the same property today, based on a 4.5% conventional gross rental.

Plus there is a priority 1.5% pa capital growth to the Assquire investor at completion embedded into the pre-agreed sales price (returns vary from property to property).

Results achieved can be calculated after all fees including Haigslea’s real estate commissions for client establishment and ongoing management of and settlement with the MA buyer over up to 10 years and for the licensed real estate agent’s own property management services to the investor over up to 10 years (often delivered by the conventional real estate agents, and not Haigslea Residential).

Our approved distribution channels and your own independent advisers can also explain the impact of the fees on you and how they are collected but neither Haigslea Residential  nor our real estate or builder channels can provide you with any legal or financial advice, so if you are in any doubt, please consult your independent legal or financial adviser.

Rest assured that for a $500,000 home, the projected additional average $150+ to possibly as high as $200 per week that you earn on average each week over up to ten years (compared to conventional gross rental at 4.5% gross per annum) is in today’s dollars and after tax after all our fees and those of your property manager, as calculated by our detailed modelling for a $500,000 Queensland home as at February 12, 2019.

This is an example only, and result will vary from property to property and over time, so ask your accountant or financial adviser to speak with us if they need more facts about the product and its design, so they can assist to advise you on what is best for your personal investment circumstances. See also the FAQ below.

For fees payable by Mortgage Alternative buyers, buyers simply pay the $250 + GST credit assessment fee and pay a solicitor for their certificate to have the contracts explained. Go to http://assquire.com.au/bap/ to express your interest and apply, so that our friendly staff can determine your credit eligibility, so that you can see if you qualify, and for what indicative home purchase Agreed Value. There is no fee for an MA buyer to apply at the conditional assessment phase. Pricing and maximum “Indicative Purchasing Ability”  (on an unescalated Agreed Value basis) can then be determined from there for the small credit assessment fee outlined above, but expect the monthly cost of Mortgage Alternative to be roughly the same as a 25 year mortgage + property ownership costs, on a like for like basis.

Financial, tax and legal advice is complex and we recommend that all Assquire investors show this answer to their adviser.

Step 1 is to apply. The first stage is free and will allow you to know whether you are likely to be accepted or not as suitable to be matched with an MA home buyer. You will need 25% equity as a minimum in your property to be conditionally suitable and you will need to furnish HRL with certain information (including statements of assets and liabilities) as part of your application.

For determining the investor’s equity, use current independent market value as a guide but the eligibility is actually based on the Agreed Value you negotiate with a future MA buyer. The 25% equity alters to 20% for Assquire Family and to 45% for self-managed superannuation funds (SMSF’s). Assquire does allow the maximum permitted security to be increased by up to a further 5% to fund part or all of any capital gains tax payable by the Assquire investor, as discussed below.

Step 2 is to confirm with your mortgage broker that you have the best rates and terms on any finance you have as an investor, and that your loans either comply with Assquire criteria, or that your affairs can (with the help of your financial adviser or accountant or both) be brought within the Assquire acceptance criteria.

Step 3 is to confirm your tax advice, as Assquire produces higher yields and may affect your lending and tax strategies. We want you to get the best possible after tax returns from your investment, and be aware of the capital gains tax consequences (see below) so that you choose the best property to Assquire, but we cannot provide you with that advice ourselves.

In preparing for step 3, you can provide your tax accountant or tax lawyer with a copy of the below example Capital Gains Tax calculation for a $500,000 sample Agreed Value home.

ASSQUIRE INVESTING

EXAMPLE SUMMARY OF CALCULATIONS PROPOSED FOR CAPITAL GAINS TAX

Please note: This example is for an investor who purchases a home conventionally and thenimmediately re-sells and leases the property to a Mortgage Alternative home buyer.

If a landlord with a current rental property that they have owned for at least 12 months wants to see an example of SWITCHING their current rental property after 12 months of ownership to the Assquire system please see the next FAQ titled: “Do you have any example CGT calculations for a current landlord switching their currently owned investment property of 12 months to the Assquire system?”

ASSQUIRE INVESTING – IMMEDIATE RESALE AND LEASE TO AN MA BUYER:

Assumes a $500,000 home (and purchase by individual with $100,000 pa other taxable income) immediately resold and leased to an MA buyer (Agreed Value also $500,000 indexed) with settlement by the MA buyer after ten years.

1. TAX RETURN – YEAR ONE SALE OF PROPERTY

Assumes Investor borrowing at 75% + any CGT payable in year 2 (subject to a cap discussed above).

a) Assumes 4.0% pa annual property price growth; sale price is Agreed Value of $500,000 indexed by 1.5%p.a. for 10 years = $580,270 (Pre-agreed contract price)

b) Deduct HRL commission at 2.75% + GST on pre-agreed minimum purchase price deducted from initial deposit paid by MA Buyer to investor ($13,038)

c) Deduct share of HRL commission paid by investor in first 24 months from Assquire rent ($4,515)

d) Deduct: HRL settlement commission of 4.5% +GST (most of which is a licence fee paid away by HRL to IP licensor) payable by the investor on sale to MA buyer, but paid by the investor only at the end of the ten years, or on Take Early or seller default ($28,723)

e) Deduct cost base (excludes reduction for future building depreciation deductions, which is yet to be claimed in future tax returns)

f) Example: $500,000 home = capital gain of $15,574 (50% included in assessable income if CGT general discount applies)

g) Depending on individual circumstances any capital gain may be reduced by capital losses carried forward or CGT availability.

h) Tax at 39% income tax rate = $6,074 (it would be less than this if the 50% CGT general discount applied because the property had been held for >12 months rather than immediately resold).

Our financial model assumes investor borrows this sum, but accelerated cash flow of average $183 per week over ten years ($73 pw in year 1) would fund this within the first eighteen months, if the investor did not borrow the CGT. Seek financial and tax advice on your own particular property and financial circumstances.

EXAMPLE END CASH FLOW IN YEAR 11:

SETTLEMENT UPLIFT – NON-FIRST HOME BUYER ONLY:

a) Assumes 4.0% pa annual property price growth; sale price is Agreed Value of $500,000 indexed by 1.5% pa for 10 years = $580,270 (Pre-agreed contract price).

b) Uplift in sales price only applies if the contract’s actual average compound annual growth >= 4.5% pa. In this example, the average compound growth in property price for ten years is 4.0%pa: Uplift = $Nil.

c) During the period until settlement, the deposit is paid by monthly instalments until it reaches 10% of the contract price.

d) HRL commission on uplift payable at settlement of 4.75% +GST – not factored into original CGT calculation in year 2 ($Nil uplift).

e) The contract provided for HRL settlement commission of 4.5% +GST to be paid by the investor only at settlement at the end of the ten years, or on Take Early ($28,723). This commission rate reduces to 2%+GST if the contract’s actual compound annual growth rate is 4% or higher over the ten years: HRL settlement commission =($12,766).
Note: $28,723 was claimed in year 1 CGT as the actual capital growth rate was not known at that time.

f) CGT payable to ATO on Uplift and building depreciation recapture, less additional HRL commission on uplift payment received by investor from MA buyer. Seek advice – there are limitations on amended assessment periods.

g) Deduct: Repayment of 75% borrowing on purchase price plus incidental costs of purchase (75% of $500,000 = $375,000)

h) Deduct: Repayment of borrowing to pay CGT in year 1 ($6,074)

In the application process, once you have been conditionally credit assessed, we also provide you with our Product Specification which includes all our fee disclosures regarding commission.

Note: Should the Assquire investor default on its obligations, the contracts provide for a Notified Recovery Amount to be recoverable by the MA buyer, behind any secured position of the Assquire investor’s lender.

Your financial adviser and/or lawyer will be able to see worked examples of the Notified Recovery Amounts payable by you (or your Trustee in Bankruptcy if you default) before you sign any sale and lease contracts with an MA Buyer. So this would be good to provide to your legal and/or financial adviser, along with the Product Specification which sets out what the product is and how it works, together with a summary of fees and charges.

A useful chart with suggestions on how to navigate this process with the best independent advice can be found here.

DISCLAIMER:

This is an example only current as at 20 February 2019 and should be used as a guide only.

The example assumes a purchase by an Assquire investor of a residential property in Queensland and immediate on-sale to a Mortgage Alternative Buyer, hence the cost base of $518,420 inclusive of investor stamp duty and $1,000 of legal expenses.

Clearly, everyone’s circumstances will be different, with different cost bases, purchase dates, and possibly Assquiring of their principal place of residence (often CGT exempt). Hence the need for independent professional tax advice.

Product pricing is subject to change without notice and may affect calculations above.

Individual investment results may vary because of interest rates, changes in taxation and other laws or regulations, whether an investor fixes their interest rates on their borrowing, whether an MA buyer settles earlier or defaults in their repayment and general economic circumstances.

Assquire investment terms may not be appropriate for an investor’s individual personal circumstances and all investors should seek independent professional legal, tax and financial advice.

Note for advisers: We have an investor comparison model – just make contact with us and we may be able to provide you with some worked examples. We will not release the financial model as we are not licensed to provide personal financial advice and it is part of our intellectual property, but we may be able to assist you as a financial adviser with certain factual information in a general (non-specific) context, to get more comfortable in providing your own independent advice to your clients on their own specific personal circumstances.

Financial, tax and legal advice is complex and we recommend that all Assquire investors show this answer to their adviser.

Step 1 is to apply. The first stage is free and will allow you to know whether you are likely to be accepted or not as suitable to be matched with an MA home buyer. You will need 25% equity as a minimum in your property to be conditionally suitable and you will need to furnish HRL with certain information (including statements of assets and liabilities) as part of your application.

For determining the investor’s equity, use current independent market value as a guide but the eligibility is actually based on the Agreed Value you negotiate with a future MA buyer. The 25% equity alters to 20% for Assquire Family and to 45% for self-managed superannuation funds (SMSF’s). Assquire does allow the maximum permitted security to be increased by up to a further 5% to fund part or all of any capital gains tax payable by the Assquire investor, as discussed below.

Step 2 is to confirm with your mortgage broker that you have the best rates and terms on any finance you have as an investor, and that your loans either comply with Assquire criteria, or that your affairs can (with the help of your financial adviser or accountant or both) be brought within the Assquire acceptance criteria.

Step 3 is to confirm your tax advice, as Assquire produces higher yields and may affect your lending and tax strategies. We want you to get the best possible after tax returns from your investment, and be aware of the capital gains tax consequences (see below) so that you choose the best property to Assquire, but we cannot provide you with that advice ourselves.

In preparing for step 3, you can provide your tax accountant or tax lawyer with a copy of the below example Capital Gains Tax calculation for a $500,000 sample Agreed Value home.

ASSQUIRE INVESTING

EXAMPLE SUMMARY OF CALCULATIONS PROPOSED FOR CAPITAL GAINS TAX

Please note: This example is for a landlord with a current rental property that they have owned for at least 12 months who wants to see an example of SWITCHING their current rental property after 12 months of ownership to the Assquire system, by now re-selling and leasing it to a Mortgage Alternative home buyer.

If you are an investor looking to ASSQUIRE INVEST – i.e. purchase a home conventionally today and then immediately re-sell and lease the property to a Mortgage Alternative home buyer at the earliest possible opportunity, please see the previous FAQ titled: “Do you have any example CGT calculations for new Assquire system investors purchasing a property today to resell and lease to an MA buyer?”

This is an example only current as at 20 February 2019 and should be used as a guide only.

ASSQUIRE SWITCHING BY A CURRENT LANDLORD AFTER 12 MONTHS OF OWNERSHIP & CONVENTIONAL RENTING – RESALE AND LEASE TO AN MA BUYER AT THE EARLIEST OPPORTUNITY:

Assumes a $500,000 Queensland property (and purchase by individual on $100,000 pa other taxable income) held for more than12 months and now to be resold and leased to an MA buyer

This example assumes zero change in market value up or down since the investor’s original purchase date.

1. TAX RETURN – YEAR ONE SALE OF PROPERTY

Assumes Investor borrowing at 75% + any CGT payable in year 2 (subject to the 5% cap discussed above).

a) Sale price is Agreed Value of $500,000 indexed by 1.5%p.a. for 10 years = $580,270 (Pre-agreed contract price)

b) Deduct HRL commission at 2.75% + GST on pre-agreed minimum purchase price deducted from initial deposit paid by MA Buyer to investor ($13,038)

c) Deduct share of HRL commission paid by investor in first 24 months from Assquire rent ($4,515)

d) Deduct: HRL settlement commission of 4.5% +GST (most of which is a licence fee paid away by HRL to IP licensor) payable by the investor on sale to MA buyer, but paid by the investor only at the end of the ten years, or on Take Early or seller default ($28,723)

e) Deduct cost base: Purchase price $500,000 + legals & duty $18,420 (prior years’ building depreciation ignored for simplicity; also excludes reduction for future building depreciation deductions, which is yet to be claimed in future tax returns) $518,420

f) Example: $500,000 home = capital gain of $15,574

g) Assume no carry forward CGT losses

h) CGT general discount (50% as at 20 February 2019) applies to reduce taxable capital gain to $7,787

i) Tax at 39% income tax rate = $3,037.

Our financial model assumes investor borrows this sum, but accelerated cash flow of average $186 per week over ten years ($73 pw in year 1) would fund this within the first eighteen months, if the investor did not borrow the CGT. Seek financial and tax advice on your own particular property and financial circumstances.

EXAMPLE END CASH FLOW END OF YEAR 10:

SETTLEMENT UPLIFT – NON-FIRST HOME BUYER ONLY:

a) Assumes 4.5% pa annual property price growth; sale price is Agreed Value of $500,000 indexed by 1.5% pa for 10 years = $580,270 (Pre-agreed contract price).

b) Uplift in sales price only applies if the contract’s actual average compound annual growth >= 4.5% pa. In this example, the average compound growth in property price for ten years is 4.0%pa: Uplift = $43,220.

c) Received during the period until settlement. The MA buyer deposit is paid by monthly instalments until it reaches 10% of the contract price.

d) HRL commission of 2.75% +GST on uplift of $43,220 payable at settlement– not factored into original CGT calculation in year 2 ($1,307).

e) The contract provided for HRL settlement commission of 4.5% +GST to be paid by the investor only at settlement at the end of the ten years, or on Take Early ($28,723). This commission rate reduces to 2%+GST if the contract’s actual compound annual growth rate is 4% or higher over the ten years.
Accordingly, the applicable rate is 2% + GST: HRL settlement commission = ($13,717).
Note: $28,723 was claimed in year 1 CGT as the actual capital growth rate was not known at that time.

f) CGT payable to ATO on Uplift and building depreciation recapture, less additional HRL commission on uplift payment received by investor from MA buyer. Seek advice – there are limitations on amended assessment periods.

g) Deduct: Repayment of 75% borrowing on purchase price plus incidental costs of purchase (75% of $500,000 = $375,000)

h) Deduct: Repayment of borrowing to pay CGT in year 1 ($3,037)

In the application process, once you have been conditionally credit assessed, we also provide you with our Product Specification which includes all our fee disclosures regarding commission.

Note: Should the Assquire investor default on its obligations, the contracts provide for a Notified Recovery Amount to be recoverable by the MA buyer, behind any secured position of the Assquire investor’s lender.

Your financial adviser and/or lawyer will be able to see worked examples of the Notified Recovery Amounts payable by you (or your Trustee in Bankruptcy if you default) before you sign any sale and lease contracts with an MA Buyer. So this would be good to provide to your legal and/or financial adviser, along with the Product Specification which sets out what the product is and how it works, together with a summary of fees and charges.

A useful chart with suggestions on how to navigate this process with the best independent advice can be found here.

DISCLAIMER:

This is an example only current as at 20 February 2019 and should be used as a guide only.

Clearly, everyone’s circumstances will be different, with different cost bases, purchase dates, and possibly Assquiring of their principal place of residence (often CGT exempt). Hence the need for independent professional tax advice.

Product pricing is subject to change without notice and may affect calculations above.

Individual investment results may vary because of interest rates, changes in taxation and other laws or regulations, whether an investor fixes their interest rates on their borrowing, whether an MA buyer settles earlier or defaults in their repayment and general economic circumstances.

Assquire investment terms may not be appropriate for an investor’s individual personal circumstances and all investors should seek independent professional legal, tax and financial advice.

Note for advisers: We have an investor comparison model – just make contact with us and we may be able to provide you with some worked examples. We will not release the financial model as we are not licensed to provide personal financial advice and it is part of our intellectual property, but we may be able to assist you as a financial adviser with certain factual information in a general (non-specific) context, to get more comfortable in providing your own independent advice to your clients on their own specific personal circumstances.

Answer: Under an Assquire contract of sale agreement with a series of special conditions that provide among other things a license to occupy.

The licence is a residential tenancy agreement. It is regulated as such by the residential tenancy legislation.

The residential lease is signed at roughly the same time as an Assquire® Contract of Sale and other associated documentation developed to implement the Assquire® system. The lease is required because of the extended settlement.

But make no mistake. As an Assquire investor, you are selling the property, not just renting it, and once committed, you will not be able to sell it to anyone else, without the new investor meeting the Assquire® system requirements and agreeing to the contracts you have signed – including agreeing to the buyer’s interest in settling at any time up to the pre-agreed settlement date.

Whilst ten years is a long time, a buyer of a $500,000 home could accumulate a 11% to 15% deposit by the end of year 6, at growth rates of average 3.5% to 5.5% pa in property prices over that time (Source: Investor comparison model 20170907. Whilst lenders mortgage insurance would still be payable in this instance, it would be less, and the MA buyer could settle with the assistance of their mortgage broker or lender, and move to their new desired location, after settling their purchase and re-selling the property conventionally, should they wish to. Results may vary with time as general economic circumstances and interest rates and property prospects change).

Many buyers may be keen to pay you the ten year price early in that circumstance (to move to another property better suited to their then personal circumstances), allowing you the funds to “go again” on another Assquire property. Of course, a property market downturn would be a different case altogether.

Answer: to the investor, yes they are buying on normal terms.

To the Assquiring occupant (MA buyer) that an investor is selling and leasing his or her investment property to with settlement in up to ten years time, yes sadly there is a second round of transfer (stamp) duty that the law may impose also, although in Qld there is a question over Office of State Revenue treatment of conditional contracts that are subject to due diligence, and whether the liability might not be attracted until financial due diligence conditions are met closer to settlement.

We will be deducting the MA buyer’s stamp duty (if payable to the government) from their deposit and remitting it as and when payable under the law. The Mortgage Alternative purchaser has an effective Take Back guarantee in their contract terms under certain defined circumstances only and subject to certain terms and conditions being met. They cannot simply change their mind and walk away. However, any duty levied by the government may not be recoverable if the MA buyer defaults or the contract with the MA buyer is subsequently terminated – it depends on the circumstances of contract termination.

This is one reason that MA buyers must think seriously before they sign up to purchase a property using the Assquire system and Mortgage Alternative. They need to be serious about buying and living in the home for an extended period, until they are in a position to settle.

Answer: We understand that all rent payments made are assessable income in the year they are derived.

All monthly deposit payments plus the initial deposit are part of the proceeds of disposal of the property and may be subject to capital gains tax in most instances. You will need to seek independent tax advice from a professional adviser, as we are not tax advisers and we do not know if the property has ever been occupied as your principal place of residence for all or part of the time that you owned it.

Assquire investors will receive two separate monthly statements on their investment property: one for the rent payments and one for the monthly deposit payments. The latter will come from the Deposit Holder specified in the contract of sale, and HRL is open to accepting that role, or your solicitor accepting it. HRL do not charge a separate or additional fee for that, as it is part of their service.

This separation in investor reporting should also make it easier for Assquire investor’s accountants at tax time.

Answer: Most usually in the year you sign the contract, which is not necessarily the year that the MA occupant settles the purchase from you. You will need to seek independent tax advice from a professional adviser, as we are not tax advisers.

Under the contract of sale, the investor agrees to receive a pre-agreed minimum price in ten years time that is inflated by an agreed growth rate per annum (currently 1.5%pa compounded annually for both first home buyers and  for non first home buyers).

Non first home buyers also pay on settlement a further “Uplift Payment” if actual property price growth equals or exceeds an average compound annual growth rate of 4.5% pa. In the example of a $500,000 home to a first home buyer who qualifies for the first home buyer’s grant, and where the agreed growth rate is 1.5% pa and the actual growth rate is 4.5%pa, the sale proceeds are $580, 270 and there is no upside risk amount. For others (usually a non-first home buyer), the sale proceeds are around $623,491 including the uplift payment amount amount is $43,220.

You may need to finance any capital gains tax (CGT) payable, or borrow to pay the tax. We have an example Investor comparison table under the stakeholders section of this website (Residential Property Investor section), which looks at the house price, agreed value in the Purchase Contract for sale proceeds and sample taxable incomes assumed of $80,000 pa, $160,000 pa and $240,000 pa (each excluding the property in question’s income). Please consider this with your professional adviser, to assist them in their advice to you on the Personal Assquire® Contract (PAC) product.

The projected average up to 7% pa net yield to an investor (marginally less if you have held the property for less than 12 months when you Assquire it to an MA buyer, because of the 12 month rule for the general CGT discount) is calculated after all fees and is also net of the effect of borrowing up to 5% of the market valuation to assist to fund any CGT.

The added capital growth you receive on settlement at the end of the Mortgage Alternative period therefore has already had all or a part of the CGT paid on it, if the MA buyer settles the Assquire® Purchase Contract. (Note: Institutional Funds acting as Assquire investors into 2018 may have a different higher capital growth sharing model, and may incur income tax at settlement, not CGT).

The above are merely general statements about the product design to assist your financial and tax advisers to assist you to assess the suitability of the product to you, in your own personal circumstances and are current based on the product design at September 11, 2017.

As landlords may have different tax losses or have held properties for different periods or for different purposes before using Assquire®, it is best to see your tax adviser to examine your particular facts and circumstances before using the Assquire® system on any property you own.

Answer: Only if you are making a taxable supply and are required to be GST registered. This may be necessary, for example, if your Assquire® gross receipts from the property/properties you assquire® exceed the GST threshold, or you voluntarily register for GST.

The supply of a residential property is input taxed. An investor buying a property that is a residential property will not pay GST on that purchase (even for new residential premises sold by a developer), so the investor will not receive input tax credits for that acquisition.

On the supply by the investor to the MA Buyer, there will again be no GST, as the supply is input taxed.

You will need to seek independent tax advice from a professional adviser, for how GST affects you in your own specific circumstances, as we are not tax advisers.

Answer: See above question and answer.

Answer: You (the investor) are to remain liable until the end of the extended settlement period as the legal property owner on title, per the residential tenancy laws and special conditions set out in the Assquire® Contract of Sale and Lease. This is why the Assquire® system requires a full building inspector’s report to be prepared at the vendor’s or investor’s cost.

This is prudent when the investor remains on title as legal owner of the property for up to ten years, and the law requires the owner to attend to maintenance beyond fair wear and tear. However, an end of year 5 inspection is also provided for as part of the contract at the investor’s cost to compare the property to its condition at lease commencement (excepting fair wear and tear) and the MA buyer can enforce his or her legal rights or seek adjustment at settlement, in accordance with the terms of the contract.

An Assquire® investor must as always exercise care in purchase, as certain costs (for example, structural repairs like restumping, repairing roof leaks etc) remain your responsibility until settlement with the MA buyer at the end of the MA period. The building inspector’s report commissioned by HRL at the Assquire investor’s or vendor’s expense will aid in allocating responsibility between Assquire® investor and MA buyer (and possibly vendor and Assquire investor if commissioned early enough) for any items that are identified (if any) by the building inspector. Your independent legal advisers will welcome these issues being addressed up front before the contracts are signed, and with the benefit of any defects or issues identified in the mandatory building inspection report.

Note that this is a building report, not a building and pest report.

All buyers are encouraged to seek their own pest reports, which the Assquire system does NOT cover. Caveat emptor applies, as with all purchase contracts.

Answer: No, but it’s worth remembering at this point that the MA buyer has outlayed at least 4.5% of the Agreed Value of the property to buy it from you, is paying inflated rents each month and a monthly further deposit payment to you.

This is far more than a 4 week bond.

However, please also note that whilst the MA buyer pays at least a 4.5% of Agreed Value cash contribution up front, in many cases, this will be absorbed by the payment of the transfer (stamp) duty payable on the transaction with the MA buyer and HRL Group sales commission, so the 4.5% (or more in some States) cash contribution is not anticipated to be available to rectify any damage – nevertheless, the fact that the MA Buyer has outlayed so much to purchase the home (together with your landlords insurance) and the ongoing payment of inflated rents to you should act as a more effective risk mitigant regarding the same issues as a 4 week rental bond does.

Assquire® is purchasing, not renting.

The MA buyer of a $500,000 home, for example, has 25,000 incentives (5% contribution up front on say a $500,000 home)  to settle with the investor on the home at completion and  more incentives each year (as inflated rents and deposit increments are paid monthly) to look after the home during the occupancy period. If they don’t, investors should be aware that refurbishment costs for damage beyond fair wear and tear, not covered by landlords insurance (which will cover some cases) and beyond the annual inflated rents paid to date are to their account.

Even when the MA Buyer’s savings plan commences in year 6, that remains at all times the MA buyer’s own money (except for legitimate legal claims), for return on exit or to contribute towards their settlement with you.

It would be wise for investors to budget for refurbishment costs beyond fair wear and tear annually just as you should with rental properties and once the MA Buyer settles, it’s their home. If they exit by default or exercise of the Take Back rights under the Purchase Contract, the home is forfeited back to the Assquire investor anyway, so it is still your property legally, just as a rental is.

Well kept properties are expected on both sides of the Assquire transaction as an encouragement for Assquire investors and MA Buyers to be accepted in future,as having a good track record in the Assquire system.

All buyers aim to settle the property they contracted to purchase at the beginning of the MA period. That’s why they entered the transaction in the first place.

Answer: The real estate agent gets its commission from the vendor of the property to the Assquire investor at settlement in the usual way. This is a conventional transaction not involving Assquire®, so there is no extended settlement and HRL does not conjunct on that sale,as it will be acting for the Assquire investor purchaser from that vendor.

Agents also make money from ongoing property management.

Property management under the Assquire® system is monitored and actioned by HRL Group (the licensed operators of the Assquire® system) using conventional real estate and property management channels, through the licensed real estate property management industry. Reporting to investors will adopt and augment these conventional channels, as used by the substantial investor rental market nationally. HRL manages the monthly receipt of deposits for up to ten years; the real estate industry the rent collections and maintenance as per usual.

The property manager will be appointed by Haigslea Australia Leasing Pty Ltd (an associate of Haigslea Residential Limited dedicated to outsourcing and monitoring the property management standards of the real estate industry servicing Assquire clients) and paid a fee deducted from rents received from the MA buyer. The Assquire investor is obliged to agree to HRL partly outsourcing this part of its Assquire® property management function (pursuant to the Form 6 Agency appointment that they sign) so that the real estate industry collects the monthly rent as usual and attends to maintenance requests on behalf of HAL and at the Assquire investor’s/owner’s cost, while HRL collects the monthly deposit payments for the Assquire investor.

HRL’s Property Risk Unit assesses the property at the beginning as being suitably valued and building inspected for use with the Assquire® system and HRL prices the pre-agreed minimum sales price and monthly Assquire payments to be payable by the MA Buyer to the Assquire investor, after the seller and MA buyer have negotiated an Agreed Value (in today’s terms) between them).

A product specification details all fees and is supplied once we know the Assquire investor is approved and their current property is approved. Fees up to that point are disclosed in the Agency Appointment form available here.

Broadly speaking,  you as property owner are obliged to pay to use Assquire® including HRL’s fees for commission to attract MA buyers and attend to pricing, collecting monthly deposit payments, HAL’s role in ongoing training and monitoring, and HRL’s client settlement. Your accelerated fees are projected after all these fees and those of the real estate property management industry are paid.

Further details are all outlined in your agreements that you sign after being fully credit and capacity assessed and having your property assessed for using Assquire®. See Assquire Application Process).

An investor comparison model from which the CGT table was derived compares (as a guide only) a property investor’s projected return from Assquiring versus renting after all of these fees have been taken into account.  Your independent financial adviser can advise you or speak with us on your behalf, to make their task of advising you much easier.

Answer: There appears to us to be no justifiable reason for them to refuse, as their security and rights to exercise power of sale should not be impeded with appropriate documentation in place, the MA buyer’s rights are protected by a Buyer’s security that ranks behind the bank and by documented secured interest for return of all or part of the contracted “Notified Recovery Amount” on seller default, and the interest cover for the bank from MA rent payments each month is much higher; the vacancy risk considerably lower.

We have prepared an Assquire Investor Explanatory Guide for lenders and you can give that to (or take that to) your lender and refer them to our Product team. You can also show them our websites and our Product Specification, after you have been conditionally credit assessed by us on Assquire Investor Application.

Assquire contracts offer a much higher average annual yield on the property in return for loss of some control (although you can assign your Assquire rights to another successful Assquire investor applicant) and in return for foregoing any upside through future capital growth above that pre-agreed Purchase Price to the MA occupant/purchaser.

Clearly, a higher yield provides greater interest cover for the bank and the MA Buyer a clear exit mechanism with  lower vacancy risk, but the bank will need to appreciate that you are selling the property on deferred settlement to the MA buyer as purchaser, and that the MA occupant has Take Back rights only in the case of certain defined Take Back events outlined in the Contract of Sale, so if it is a new property that you are buying, it may be prudent and best for them to assess your loan as if you were renting the property conventionally (which is the lower yield position should the MA buyer encounter personal circumstances that permit them to exit the lease and not to settle with you.

Remember to tell your bank that they must provide Financier’s consent to the Buyer’s Security interest as outlined in the Contract of Sale, and that if the MA Buyer defaults or exercises their Take Back Rights, all capital growth to date during the MA period reverts to you!

Answer: The MA buyer (as an occupant/purchaser from you (the investor)) actually makes two separate payments each month: one (the inflated rent) to the real estate agent who showed them the property in the first instance, gave them the keys, manages the property maintenance and collects the rent each month as agent for Haigslea Australia Leasing Pty Ltd (HAL) – a subsidiary of Haigslea Residential Limited; the second monthly payment is the incremental or additional monthly deposit payment that is paid by the MA Buyer direct to HRL’s real estate trust account on your behalf as Deposit Holder under the contract of sale, and is released to you in full without deduction monthly, as part of your monthly statement.

The property manager that Haigslea Residential Limited  train and sub- license in the operation of the Assquire® system (and which is appointed by HAL to manage the property) will look after your Assquire® rent receipts and remit your rental income to you (just as they do now on rental contracts to tenants), but after deducting:

1. HAL’s Differential for ongoing services to you (noted above) over the extended settlement period; plus
2. the property manager’s own fee for processing the rent payments from the MA Buyer, as outsourced property management and any legitimate costs for repairs and maintenance or other property costs paid by your instruction or as required by law; plus
3. the following reconciliation at settlement.

Any client settlement commission payable to HRL at the end of the ten years (or on Take Early or seller default) and other final fees payable from the gross proceeds on completion at the end of the MA period – such as any adjustment required by the terms of the contract of sale– shall be reconciled with the settlement proceeds otherwise payable by the MA buyer to the investor on completion.

Of course, all the above fees are factored into the projected average annual yield to the investor of 5% to 7% pa which is quoted after these fees – and if the MA buyer does not settle at or before the end of ten years, the investor will not be liable for HRL’s settlement commission (other than in the case of the Seller’s own default, where HRL’s settlement commission is reduced).

Special Conditon 15 to the Agency Appointment Form 6, in accordance with the Property Occupations Act in Qld (or equivalent law in other States), outlines when and how HRL’s commission entitlements are payable.

The Assquire investor only pays one amount of transfer (stamp) duty up front, just as with a conventional rental purchase. The MA Buyer pays a second lot of transfer (stamp) duty as part of their initial 4.5% or 5% cash contribution, but that duty is only on the pre-agreed purchase price, and is not part of their deposit, so the Assquire investor deos not pay that.

The only circumstance where the Assquire investor pays any more duty is only for non-first home buyers and then only in the circumstance where actual capital growth equals or exceeds a compound annual growth rate of average 4.5% pa.

The investor pays this duty on eventual setlement only, and only because they have been paid an Uplift Payment by the purchasing MA Buyer, as per the terms of the Contract of Sale.

So this is only determined if and when the MA buyer settles – usually at the end of the ten year MA period and only if a non-first home buyer and in those circumstances outlined above only.

If the MA buyer does not settle, the second amount of transfer duty (potentially payable on settlement when any Uplift Payment is determined to be payable) is not payable by the Assquire investor. Here’s how it works.

The MA buyer’s 5% deposit is at risk, as is the 10-12% deposit when a Buyer takes a conventional mortgage. Taking a $500,000 home in Queensland as an example, indexed by 1.5% pa to a pre-agreed minimum purchase price in ten years of $580, 270. In this case, $11,962 of the 5% cash contributed up front by an MA Buyer of $25,000 is required to be allocated immediately by the MA non-first home buyer or their solicitor as transfer (stamp) duty – as with your home equity with a conventional mortgage. The balance $13, 038 becomes the MA buyer deposit released in accordance with the terms of the Contract of Sale to pay part of HRL’s commission entitlement under the Agency appointment. The balance of the commission (3% + GST of the known Purchase Price at that time of $580,270) is paid by the Assquire investor from their accelerated rental yields paid monthly to the investor by the MA buyer – this is currently projected to take up to approximately 18 months.

The overall result is currently modelling as at June 17, 2016 at a total projected average annual total return of 10% to the Assquire investor – being a passing yield of 7.94% pa after all fees  plus the 2.06% pa capital growth.

The equivalent figures for a first home buyer are 8.11% pa average passing yield and 0.68%pa average capital growth (total return 8.8%). Projections are based on assumptions and not assured. Every property will be different and returns are affected by general economic circumstances, property characteristics and age, changes in interest rates and changes in regulatory laws.

It is worth pointing out that the purchaser’s contract to buy a home is executed initially in 2016 with a Personal Assquire Contract (PAC) investor who must meet Haigslea Residential Limited’s stringent credit assessment criteria. Into 2017, contracts may also be offered with a pooled Residential Fund that is intended to be capitalised by major Australian financial or property institutions. It is therefore highly unlikely that the Fund will go broke.

With individual Assquire investors, a minimum 30% equity (based on Agreed value of the property offered for sale to MA buyers) is required of the investor, with no cross collateralisation allowed.

To the extent that an Assquire investor goes bankrupt, the MA buyer has a secured interest in the property through their Buyer’s mortgage registered on the title by their solicitor, as well as their registered ten year lease – any bank lender to the Assquire (PAC) investor is alerted to your contractual interest in the property from the start by the legal requirement for financier consent prior to MA buyer occupation of the property under their lease.

Moreover, the Mortgage Alternative product has a number of Assquire system design features specifically engineered to reduce default and enforced sale risk. Also remember that buyers have no obligation other than the monthly payments that arise from the contract executed with the PAC/Assquire investor or any Fund. It therefore stands to reason that if buyers have more certainty and less risk, buyers are less likely to default, and the Assquire investor or Fund therefore is less likely to have a financial problem.

However in the extremely unlikely event that the Fund or the Assquire investor does go broke, any creditor bank or non-bank lender to the Assquire investor  would likely sell the Assquire investor’s property and the bank would be repaid first, then the MA buyer’s security interest would be payable, in advance of any unsecured creditors of the Assquire investor, to the extent that sales proceeds allow.

As we saw in the recent global financial crisis (GFC), a number of Funds became “distressed” due to high debt levels. In this event, it is the Fund’s responsibility to find additional capital that will enable it to deliver its contractual commitments to customers. In the worst case scenario, a receiver or liquidator would be appointed and it is then their responsibility under the law to sell the contract to another financial institution.

Haigslea Residential Limited credit assesses Assquire investors and approves them only after stringent credit checks and full credit assessments are performed.

Haigslea Residential Limited is a service provider to the Assquire (PAC) investor or any Fund and receives revenue from the PAC investor or Fund for the services it provides in administering these contracts as agreed between the parties. If the buyer pays the Assquire investor or Fund the monthly payments as required by the contract, HRL Group will be paid its fees as per the contract as will Haigslea Australia Leasing Pty Ltd’s property management agent (an outsourcing to existing real estate agents of some of those property management duties in relevant cases) from the payments made by the MA buyer.

If the buyer can’t pay and cancels their contract and vacates the property, the Assquire investor either obtains another suitable qualifying customer for that particular home or it sells the home – in both cases with the assistance of HRL and its accredited and trained real estate agency channels.