17 November 2008

Rent Vs Buy: Malmesbury

We usually don't go this far out of Cape Town but here's a house for sale in Malmesbury, or rather as it says in the ad 22km behind Malmesbury and 6km inland, with an asking price of R990 000. With a 100% bond you'd be paying just over R13 400/month. Or you could rent it for R3 300 a month, just over 3 times the monthly difference (R10 103) between the rental and bond price. Here's the yield and payment graph.

That's pretty bad. A 75% downpayment to break even on cash flow and a just over 4% ROI if you buy in cash. But ignore that because the price of property 100km from Cape Town and 6km from the coast are just set to skyrocket right?

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