To sell your home or not when moving overseas

Question Personal Background We are planning to move to England this year. We live in a home in Victoria that we own (still have mortgage on it). It was our PPR for 12 months, then we used it as an occasional weekender and rented it out on other weekends. For the past 18 months we …

Practicalities of Moving Oversea and Main Residence Exemption

Question Hi we are thinking about moving abroad this year with a trial period beforehand, and plan to sell our PPOR (ownership is joint tenants) as a precaution.The purchase price was $525,000 and sale price will be approximately $1m. Our original idea was for my wife to transit first with the children and start setting …

Replacing Bathrooms before Renting Out

Question My question is about the deductibility of bathroom renovation costs following a leak that revealed that the entire bathroom floor and shower walls had not been properly waterproofed when the place was initially built (cca 2009). I purchased the property in 2014 and rented it out for several years, until about 2020. I then …


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