IMB’s Family Guarantee is a way for your family to help you get into your dream home sooner. A family guarantee allows your family to help you purchase a property without actually providing you with a cash gift or cash loan.
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You can use a family guarantee to help get your home sooner
A family guarantee allows your family to help you purchase a property without actually providing you with a cash gift or cash loan. Using a family guarantee you could apply for a home loan without a deposit and without paying the lender’s mortgage insurance costs.
For example, if you wanted to purchase a property worth $550k, you could have to save up to $110k to get a 20% deposit. Saving up for a deposit this big could take you years. Instead, your parents could provide a limited guarantee for the required amount against their existing property (or against a Term Deposit that they hold with IMB) so that you don’t have to pay lender’s mortgage insurance or save up for a deposit.
This all helps you get into your home much sooner and can save you money.
You can use a family guarantee to help get your home sooner if you are purchasing a residential property that you intend to live in. Family guarantees are not available for investment properties. Family guarantees are well suited to first home buyers, although you do not need to be a first home buyer to take advantage of IMB’s Family Guarantee.
IMB allows immediate family members such as parents and step parents to provide a guarantee for their children. IMB may also consider other guarantor relationships.
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Within the context of a Family Guarantee Home Loan, 'Term Deposit' refers to a sum of money lodged with IMB by the guarantor as security for the guarantee they are providing. The Term Deposit must remain in place until the borrower’s Family Guarantee Home Loan is repaid or IMB agrees to release some or all of the guarantee.
Interest is still earned on the Term Deposit and will be paid to the guarantor, except where either the guarantor or the borrower is in default of their obligations in respect of the Family Guarantee.
You can find more information on the IMB Family Guarantee Home Loan, which enables family members to assist other family members to get a home loan without paying Lenders Mortgage Insurance by contacting an IMB Lending specialist today on 133 462. Our expert team can answer your questions.
Borrowers may choose from any IMB Home Loan. Regardless of the home loan the borrower chooses, loan repayments must be made on the basis of principal and interest payments whilst the guarantee is in place. Interest only repayments are not permitted. Further, Family Guarantees are not available for the purpose of buying an investment property.
It may be possible for an immediate family member to provide a Family Guarantee if there is already a loan against the guarantor’s property, but only if the existing home loan for the property is with IMB. Further, IMB considers other factors when assessing the eligibility of a guarantor's security, including the value of the property and how much is already owed. Call our team on 133 462 to find out more.
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.
When the home loan is reduced to an amount that is less than 80% of the market value of the purchased property (as determined by an independent valuation conducted by an IMB panel valuer), the guarantor may request that IMB release the guarantor from their guarantee. Reaching a less-than-80% loan-to-value ratio can occur if the purchased property value increases over time and the loan is paid down by principal and interest repayments. Equity in the home will increase and the loan-to-value ratio will decrease.
However, IMB retains sole discretion in deciding whether or not a guarantee will be released. Alternatively, the guarantor can end the guarantee at any time by paying the guaranteed amount to IMB. Speak to our team on 133 462 to explore in more detail.
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In the event that the borrower defaults on their loan (for example, by not making the required loan repayments or not complying with their other loan obligations, such as keeping the property insured), IMB may be forced to exercise its rights under the loan, including procuring a sale of the borrower’s property. In this case, if there is a shortfall after the borrower’s property is sold, IMB may call upon the guarantor to remedy the shortfall up to the limit of the guarantee. If the guarantor does not pay this amount, IMB may call upon the security provided by the guarantor to remedy the shortfall and take action to recover amounts owing by selling the guarantor’s property or taking the guarantor’s Term Deposit.
IMB wants to ensure that the guarantors understand the risks of providing assistance to a borrower under the Family Guarantee. Therefore, it is mandatory that guarantors obtain independent legal advice prior to settlement of the loan.
Guarantors are typically immediate family members such as parents or step-parents, although IMB may consider other guarantor relationships. Contact the team to talk through your situation. We are here to help.
If a borrower can afford the repayments on a home loan but does not have sufficient savings to cover the usual deposit (20% of the home value) plus other costs associated with purchasing a home (such as stamp duty and legal fees), they will normally have to pay lenders mortgage insurance because the loan amount is more than 80% of the value of the property being purchased. Lenders mortgage insurance can be quite expensive.
To avoid the borrower having to pay lender’s mortgage insurance (or to reduce the amount of lender’s mortgage insurance the borrower has to pay), a family member can provide a secured limited guarantee to IMB to support the loan. This additional security means IMB may provide a loan amount that is more than 80% of the value of the property that the borrower wants to purchase without (or with less) lender’s mortgage insurance.
IMB’s Family Guarantee allows home buyers (especially first home buyers) to enter the property market sooner. A Family Guarantee allows family to assist their children in the purchase of a property without actually providing a cash gift or cash loan. It could also allow borrowers to include some of the costs of purchasing, such as stamp duty and legal costs in the loan amount.
Under IMB’s Family Guarantee, the borrower (generally a first home buyer) receives assistance from an immediate family member(s), who provides additional security to cover the difference between the amount of the borrower’s savings and the maximum loan amount that IMB will usually lend without lender’s mortgage insurance, which is 80% of the value of the property being purchased. This additional security provided by the family member is provided in the form of a limited guarantee secured by a residential property owned by the family member, or secured by a Term Deposit lodged with IMB by the family member.
Another option for borrowers with less than 20% deposit is the Home Guarantee Scheme which assist first home buyers and single parents purchase a home with as little as 5% deposit, while not paying the Lenders Mortgage Insurance.
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