Home loans in Como
Bridging Loans Como
Your Mortgage Broker Como arranges bridging loans for Como buyers in Sutherland Shire, funding the gap between buying your next home and selling this one, with peak debt, exit timing and every cost mapped on paper before you commit.
Buying the Next Como House Before the Old One Sells Is a Timing Problem
The problem is arithmetic: settlement dates rarely line up, your deposit sits inside your current Como property, and the seller will not wait. A bridge loan borrows against both homes until the first sale retires most of it.
Bridging Loans We Arrange
Not every overlap is the same shape: a signed contract changes everything, a downsizer moving once changes things differently, and a rebuild runs on its own clock. These are the five structures we arrange most often around Como:
Closed Bridging
A closed bridge runs against a signed contract of sale with a known settlement date, which makes it the most affordable structure in the family, because the lender can see the exit and prices that certainty into the terms offered.
Open Bridging
An open bridge carries no signed sale contract, so the lender cannot see when the exit lands and responds with tighter conditions, shorter terms and pricing that reflects the extra risk, which is why we exhaust every closed option first.
Downsizer Bridging
Downsizer bridges suit the Como owners who hold their homes outright, roughly forty per cent of dwellings here, letting them buy the smaller place first, move once, and sell the family home afterwards without the double move or rented interval.
Construction Bridging
Construction bridges cover the interval between settling your new land or dwelling and selling the existing Como house, and they sit alongside staged construction lending, where progress payments run through a build while the old property waits for its buyer.
Relocation Bridging
Relocation bridges handle a job move, where a Sydney or interstate transfer starts before the Como sale settles, funding the new address near the new workplace so the household shifts once, and the old home sells on its own timeline.
How Peak Debt and End Debt Actually Work
Every bridge is two numbers and a date: peak debt, the worst moment, and end debt, where you land. Lenders assess both balances against your income, so the worked example below shows the arithmetic exactly:
Peak Debt, Defined
Peak debt is the scary number: your existing mortgage plus the purchase price of the new Como home sitting on the ledger at once, and it exists only until the old property sells and the balance collapses to end debt.
A Worked Example
As an illustration with stated assumptions, take a $700,000 mortgage owing and a $1,300,000 purchase: peak debt is $2,000,000, the sale nets $1,500,000 after agent costs, and end debt lands at $500,000, which the numbers on your file will replace.
Interest During the Overlap
Interest accrues on peak debt for the bridging term, so the illustration above might carry interest costs of several thousand dollars a month, and we model that figure against your household income of, say, the local median near $3,150 weekly.
Capitalised Interest Mechanics
Most lenders capitalise the bridge interest instead of requiring monthly repayments on it, adding the accrued amount to the balance, which protects your cash flow during the overlap but grows the debt steadily for every extra month the sale takes.
What the Bridge Costs If the Sale Runs Long
Bridging is priced like any credit, interest plus application and valuation costs, but its real price is time. Sometimes home equity lending or a refinance does the same job without a bridge:
The Cost of Time
Every month past the expected sale date adds another round of interest on the peak balance, and under a capitalised structure that interest itself starts accruing interest, which is precisely how a tidy three-month plan becomes an expensive six-month one.
When the Sale Undershoots
A sale coming in under expectation squeezes end debt upward, because the shortfall between the achieved price and the assumed one lands on your new loan, and Como's view streets can disappoint on an unrenovated interior despite a strong address.
When a Bridge Pays
Bridging earns its cost when the right Como house appears ahead of your sale, when selling first means renting twice, or when a downsizer wants one move, and the interest expense stays smaller than the price of losing the property.
When Another Structure Fits
Skip the bridge when the equity in your current home covers the new purchase, because a home equity loan or a refinance can restructure the position without any bridge at all, and we check that route before quoting anything else.
How it works
Our Bridging Loans Process
A timeline you can hold us to beats a vague promise, so here is the sequence as it actually runs on a Como file, with the weeks and days named, from first conversation to discharge:
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Days One to Three
Day one to day three: a strategy call works out whether a bridge is genuinely the right structure for your position, runs rough peak and end debt numbers, and lists every document the lender will want before anything is lodged.
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Weeks One and Two
Weeks one to two: you gather contract of sale or purchase contracts, recent mortgage statements, payslips and identification, we order the valuations on both properties in parallel, and the submission goes to the lender with the full exit plan attached.
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Days Seventeen to Twenty-Two
Days seventeen to twenty-two, typically: conditional approval returns within three to five business days of a clean submission, formal approval follows once the valuations land, and anywhere the lender queries the exit we answer it while the file stays moving.
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Four to Six Weeks
Settlement runs roughly four to six weeks from acceptance, subject to the standard cooling-off and conveyancing sequence, and on the purchase side the bridge funds the gap while your existing Como property goes to market with its own campaign timeline.
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The Exit Mechanics
The exit itself is mechanical: your sale settles, the payout figure clears the old mortgage and the accrued bridge interest, the surplus rolls down the new loan to end debt, and discharge and registration wrap up within about two weeks.
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Fortnightly Campaign Check-Ins
During the campaign we check in at intervals of roughly a fortnight, tracking inspection numbers, buyer feedback and the agent's price expectations against the modelled sale figure, so a soft market shows up in week two rather than at settlement.
Where Bridging Finance Gets Stuck
Bridges rarely fail at approval; they fail afterwards, when the sale behaves differently from the model, and the damage lands on the household that sized everything optimistically. Your Mortgage Broker Como sees four failure modes around the Shire:
No Documented Exit Plan
Bridges fail on exit strategy, not on entry, and the mistake is listing the old property after settlement on the new one, which converts a tidy closed bridge into an open one, with tighter conditions and the clock already running.
Optimistic Asking Prices
An asking price set above the market from hope rather than evidence burns the term, and every week of an unsold campaign adds interest, so we insist the exit numbers survive a conservative sale figure, never the agent's optimistic one.
Compounding Capitalised Interest
Capitalised interest compounds on files that drift, and a household that budgeted for the modelled three-month overlap can find the six-month version has added thousands it never planned for, which is why the buffer is sized into the structure upfront.
The Sale Falls Through
A buyer reneging before exchange, or cooling off after it, leaves the bridge standing with no exit, and the answer is that an open extension, a price correction or, in the last resort, a restructure through refinancing becomes the conversation.
Why Choose Your Mortgage Broker Como
Trust has to come from somewhere when a business is new, so we substitute four things you can verify, in writing, for the borrowed signals other sites lean on, starting with a broker whose name is on your file:
A Named Broker
Every file gets a named broker, Your Mortgage Broker Como, accountable to you rather than to a call centre queue, and you can verify the representative number 370592 and Australian Credit Licence 389328 published in the footer before you commit.
A Panel of Lenders
A panel of lenders rather than one bank means your bridge goes to whichever credit team handles the structure best, and a decline at the first simply moves the file onward, without you resubmitting paperwork or starting the conversation again.
No Cost to Most
For most borrowers our service costs nothing upfront, because the lender pays the commission on settlement, our fee and commission structure is published so you can read it before engaging us, and any unusual charge is disclosed in writing first.
Process Before Product
We publish our process with real timelines before we recommend a product, so you know the stages, the documents and the durations in advance, and if a bridge is the wrong answer for your position we will say so plainly.
Areas We Service
Bridging files come from across the southern Shire: Oatley over the old rail bridge, plus Oyster Bay, Kareela, Jannali and Bonnet Bay, alongside Como itself, and every suburb gets the same written numbers and named broker.
Questions answered
Frequently Asked Questions
How much does a bridging loan cost in Como?
Costs include an application fee, usually several hundred dollars, valuation fees on both properties, and interest on peak debt at the lender's bridge margin, which we model in dollars on your file before you commit to anything.
How long can a bridging loan run in New South Wales?
Most lenders allow up to six months for a closed bridge against a signed contract, and around twelve months for an open bridge, although the shorter your actual overlap, the less interest accrues on the balance.
Can I get a bridge if my Como house has not sold yet?
Yes, as an open bridge, but expect tighter conditions, a shorter maximum term and stricter exit scrutiny, so we always price the closed option first and only recommend going open when a genuine campaign has already run its course.
Do I make repayments on a bridging loan while both homes are mine?
Usually not on the bridge itself, because most lenders capitalise the interest onto the balance at exit, but you keep paying your existing mortgage, so we model the total monthly commitment against your income before approval.
What happens if my sale settles for less than the bridging model assumed?
The shortfall lands on your end debt, increasing the loan you carry into the new property, which is why we stress test every bridge against a conservative sale figure and size a buffer into the structure from the start.
Is a downsizer bridge common in Como?
Very, because roughly forty per cent of Como dwellings are owned outright and the suburb skews toward established houses, so many owners buy the smaller home first, move once, and sell the family property afterwards without renting in between.
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