HaraldHirsch
2016-04-27 11:19:45
- #1
Hello everyone,
we are planning to buy a house with 3 units. We will move into the lower one, the other two apartments will remain rented out.
The tax advisor recommended that for the part that is rented out, we should take out a separate loan, have it run significantly longer, and each year offset the depreciation and interest expenses against the rental income.
The problem is: the house is supposed to cost 350,000 euros, the actually somewhat higher price is basically a gift from the seller. So far so good.
However, the house is on a 790 sqm plot of land. We cannot allocate this to the rented apartments. With a current land value of 245 euros/sqm, this would already result in a value of 193,550 euros for this plot.
Thus, only 350,000 - 193,550 = 156,450 euros would remain for the house.
Is that correct? Somehow that sounds stupid.
Of the 156,450 euros, 2/3, i.e. just over 100,000 euros, would then be allocated to the rented part, and from the rest of the loan we cannot derive any tax advantages :-(
Do you have any tips?
The tax advisor said that the land could be "set lower within a realistic framework," but what amount are we talking about here?
Our hope was to manage the loan by having the biggest portion (we thought we could allocate 2/3 of the total sum of 350,000 = 230,000 euros) run longer and reduce the monthly rate. But that does not seem to work? :-(
Best regards
we are planning to buy a house with 3 units. We will move into the lower one, the other two apartments will remain rented out.
The tax advisor recommended that for the part that is rented out, we should take out a separate loan, have it run significantly longer, and each year offset the depreciation and interest expenses against the rental income.
The problem is: the house is supposed to cost 350,000 euros, the actually somewhat higher price is basically a gift from the seller. So far so good.
However, the house is on a 790 sqm plot of land. We cannot allocate this to the rented apartments. With a current land value of 245 euros/sqm, this would already result in a value of 193,550 euros for this plot.
Thus, only 350,000 - 193,550 = 156,450 euros would remain for the house.
Is that correct? Somehow that sounds stupid.
Of the 156,450 euros, 2/3, i.e. just over 100,000 euros, would then be allocated to the rented part, and from the rest of the loan we cannot derive any tax advantages :-(
Do you have any tips?
The tax advisor said that the land could be "set lower within a realistic framework," but what amount are we talking about here?
Our hope was to manage the loan by having the biggest portion (we thought we could allocate 2/3 of the total sum of 350,000 = 230,000 euros) run longer and reduce the monthly rate. But that does not seem to work? :-(
Best regards