Loan scenario of the week: A family affair

This broker has sibling clients who are making a complicated transaction including an inherited home. Can you help?

This broker has sibling clients who are making a complicated transaction including an inherited home. Can you help? Here are the details:
  • Brother and sister clients who have a residential property which is still in their parent’s names. As they are now deceased they have probate, etc.
  • Currently there is a debt of $55,000 on the house, which is being sold.
  • They are going to subdivide their existing property to sell off two blocks - one of which is already sold.
  • They need finance to purchase a new residential property as soon as possible.
  • As the broker understands it, the debt is assessed on the end debt for servicing purposes.
  • Total security value is about $450,000, and new security is to the value of $550k.
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