The IMB Bridging Loan has been specially designed to provide you with a smooth and hassle-free solution when purchasing prior to selling your existing property.
A Bridging loan is a short term loan to fund the purchase of your new property and is paid out with proceeds from the sale of your existing property. To help ease the financial strain during this period, you don't have to make any repayments on your new loan until your existing property is sold. Interest charges are capitalised – this means they are added to the loan balance.
IMB can set up your bridging loan to your specific needs and you have up to 6 months to sell your existing property. Bridging Finance is only available on IMB's Standard Variable Loan.
$20,000
$2,500,000
Up to 6 months
75% combined LVR during the bridging period (inclusive of capitalised interest)
80% LVR on the remaining loan after the sale of the existing property and repayment of bridging loan
During the bridging term, repayments are not required; instead they are capitalised to the bridging loan. Minimum repayments must be made on any existing IMB loan(s) for the existing security property
Not available on bridging finance
Not available
Calculated daily, charged monthly
IMB must be registered as first party on a 1st Mortgage over both the property being sold and the property being purchased.
Available to personal borrowers. Bridging finance is not available for investment or business purposes.
Interest rates shown are for new owner occupier bridging loans
Standard Variable | Interest Rate | Comparison Rate2 |
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All LVRs | 8.96 % p.a. | 9.03 % p.a. |
Review our bridging finance help articles or speak with one of our home loan specialists to better understand bridging finance.
Our home loan specialists are ready to help you navigate buying or building a new home while you sell your current home.
The guarantor can provide residential property to support their guarantee. Alternatively, the guarantor may instead choose to provide IMB with a Term Deposit for an amount equal to the limit of the guarantee.
IMB has a range of calculators to help you manage most money problems, including the Home Loan Repayment Calculator. Not only can you get a fast understanding of what your repayments will be with any of our home loans, but you can calculate what difference changing the frequency of your repayments or making extra repayments will do to the total interest you pay and how much time you may save.
Yes, you can - and you will likely save money on interest, and shorten the duration of the loan term. How? By changing the frequency of your home loan repayments from monthly to fortnightly (or weekly), you actually repay an extra month per year. It works like this:
- 12 monthly repayments is the equivalent of 24 fortnightly repayments.
- There are 26 fortnightly repayments over a 52-week year - an extra two fortnightly repayments a year.
The savings over the life of the loan can be significant. For example, for a $500,000 loan at 5.00%p.a. over 30 years.
- Monthly repayments are $2685, and the interest paid over 30 years is $466,280.
- Fortnightly repayments are $1343, and the interest over 30 years is $380,460. This represents an interest saving of $85,820! And it shaves 4 years and 8 months off the loan term.
Calculate how much you could save by switching from monthly to fortnightly repayments.
A home loan pre-approval/conditional approval with IMB lasts 90 days. Conditions include the provision of verification documents and security satisfactory to IMB. Start your application now for fast conditional approval.
Yes. A split home loan allows you to have part of your loan on a variable rate and the other part on a fixed rate.
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General
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Purpose, repayment type and LVR
Interest rates for each type of home loan are based on criteria that includes purpose (owner occupier or investment), repayment type (principal and interest (P&I) or interest only) and loan to value ratio (LVR). Different interest rates and establishment fees may apply if the purpose, repayment type or LVR is different to the purpose, repayment type or LVR for the interest rate shown.
Rates and features
1. Maximum LVR varies depending on state, occupancy, loan amount, security type and is inclusive of any insurance components added to the loan.
2. This comparison rate is based on a $150,000 secured home loan over 25 years. WARNING: This comparison rate is true only for the examples given and may not include all fees and charges. Different terms, fees or other loan amounts might result in a different comparison rate.