The Patel family
Mechanical services business, Welshpool — Owner-occupier purchase
The Situation
Raj and Anita Patel had leased the same 950sqm warehouse in Welshpool for eleven years, paying around $108,000 a year in rent. The owner contacted them — he was selling, and was offering them first option at $1.6 million. They had two weeks to decide. Their main bank had quoted a 35% deposit (around $560,000) and a rate sitting comfortably north of where the market actually was. The conversation had stalled.
What We Did
Their business turnover was strong and their financials were clean. The warehouse was a property they'd be operating from themselves — which meant we could structure the deal as owner-occupier rather than investor, opening up better lenders and tighter pricing. By Thursday we had three lenders competing. The one we recommended offered them 75% LVR (deposit of $400,000), a 25-year term, an interest-only window for the first three years to support cash flow during the rent-to-mortgage transition, and a rate around 1.4% sharper than their main bank's offer. They settled inside six weeks. Their monthly repayments came in lower than the rent they'd been paying — and now they own the building.
Names changed, situation real. Numbers based on actual lender pricing as at March 2026.