27 February 2008

Rent Vs Buy: Mutal Heights - Cape Town CBD

Mutual heights is a development in the Cape Town CBD that is packed full of overpriced lofts with terrible rental yields. For instance here's a loft apartment for sale for R825 000 and which rents for R3 500pm. If you had to get a 100% bond your payments would be R10 559/month, R7 000 more than the rental you could expect to achieve. Here's the rest of the return on investment and payments you can expect:












Down PaymentMonthly PaymentCash flowAnnual IncomeROI
R0R10559.98R-8059.98R-96719.78
R82500R9503.98R-7003.98R-84047.80-101.88%
R165000R8447.99R-5947.99R-71375.82-43.26%
R247500R7391.99R-4891.99R-58703.85-23.72%
R330000R6335.99R-3835.99R-46031.87-13.95%
R412500R5279.99R-2779.99R-33359.89-8.09%
R495000R4223.99R-1723.99R-20687.91-4.18%
R577500R3167.99R-667.99R-8015.93-1.39%
R660000R2112.00R388.00R4656.040.71%
R742500R1056.00R1444.00R17328.022.33%
R825000R0.00R2500.00R30000.003.64%

Yow! 3.64%!? That's even worse then De Waterkant! And this is before rates, maintenance and vacancy costs. The apartment is R59m^2 so I would guess rates/levies are at least R500 a month which would bring the max ROI down to a abysmal 2.91%.

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