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Gifting a Property to Children

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  • Nsar
    Nsar Posts: 25 Forumite
    Sadly I don't quite have the funds to buy them a house each!

    The rent elsewhere is a bit of red herring as it's cost neutral.
  • Hoploz
    Hoploz Posts: 3,888 Forumite
    Nsar wrote: »
    Sadly I don't quite have the funds to buy them a house each!

    The rent elsewhere is a bit of red herring as it's cost neutral.


    > That may be so but you could sell or mortgage the spare property you already have to finance it along with the future rental income. It's pretty normal for people letting properties to have mortgages. This is a choice but you were asking of ways to reduce their debt - this would achieve that by reducing their outgoings.

    > I don't know what you mean by the second bit
  • Nsar
    Nsar Posts: 25 Forumite
    Getting a mortgage on the 2nd property is something we are looking at as well yes. I think we can get 70%of the value which we'd use to buy another rental property.

    What I mean was wherever our children live it's more or less cost neutral. If they have a room in a property we own, we lose that income. If they live elsewhere they pay rent but we get rent. Outside London, student rents don't really vary that much in our experience
  • Person_one
    Person_one Posts: 28,884 Forumite
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    Nsar wrote: »
    I'd continue to handle the fun & games of managing the property until such time as they wanted to take that on.

    They would still be the ones legally responsible and on the hook if anything went wrong though, and what if they never want to be landlords?
  • Nsar
    Nsar Posts: 25 Forumite
    It's bit hypothetical now as I'm persuaded that the loss of 1st time buyer benefits and access to the long term savings scheme probably outweigh the tax benefits, but to answer your question, the risk of something going wrong is there irrespective of ownership and I'd deal with it.
  • Person_one
    Person_one Posts: 28,884 Forumite
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    Nsar wrote: »
    It's bit hypothetical now as I'm persuaded that the loss of 1st time buyer benefits and access to the long term savings scheme probably outweigh the tax benefits, but to answer your question, the risk of something going wrong is there irrespective of ownership and I'd deal with it.

    What if the thing that goes wrong is that you aren't there to deal with it?
  • Nsar
    Nsar Posts: 25 Forumite
    Blimey....What if we never did anything for fear of something going wrong?

    If I've gone under a bus, they'd know who to call.
  • lydriver
    lydriver Posts: 264 Forumite
    ghostBUSters
  • Person_one
    Person_one Posts: 28,884 Forumite
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    Nsar wrote: »
    Blimey....What if we never did anything for fear of something going wrong?

    If I've gone under a bus, they'd know who to call.


    It just seems more like a burden than a gift for two university age young people, and with property, especially rented out property, you do have to consider various possibilities.
  • tlc678910
    tlc678910 Posts: 982 Forumite
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    Hi,
    Slight tangent but if you are consider taking further mortgages to finance future rentals make sure you understand the effect of recent tax changes on buy to let.

    If you are a higher rate tax payer, or the income from your rental properties makes you a higher rate tax payer, income tax relief will only be applied to your mortgage interest at the basic rate.

    Basically if you have mortgages (and are/become a higher rate taxpayer) you can find yourself with tax bills to pay even when there is no profit made, money which you then have to find yourself.
    Tlc
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