Even first time investors need mum's money in Surry Hills
Even young first time investors are getting mum's money to secure their property purchases.
It was the case today when the one-bedroom house at 7 Little Bloomfield Street, Surry Hills, was bought by a first home buyer, with help from his mother.
Agent Marc Marano of Oxford Agency secured $840,000 for the single-storey worker's cottage at auction.
It was marketed as a "diamond in the rough".
Investor Doi Kim, 25, and his mother, Gina Lim will renovate before renting it out after paying $140,000 over the reserve, Fairfax Media reported.
The unrenovated, 63 square metre terrace had been in the same family about five decades.
The trend of traditional first time buyers investing instead as their first property purchase has been escalating in recent times.
Mortgage Choice has noticed a marked alternate trend of first time investor buying by the traditional first home buyer.
"More and more are buying investments as their first time buy," Michael Russell, the Mortgage Choice chief executive said recently.
Their recent survey showed there were 21% of its first time buyers borrowing for an investment property rather than a home to live in.
Surry Hills' median house price sits at around $1.26 million, according to CoreLogic RP Data.
There was an $840,000 median back in 2010.
