Lending to your SMSF yourself is another good option
I am sure you can borrow at much lower rates than the 10.9% used in this example but you can see the possibilities here where you can charge your SMSF a commercial rate but have borrowed the funds at home loan rate so your SMSF complies with...
house keeper
Seing that there is a lot of interest on SMSF's there days I've started a thread explaining the process we had to go through when we recently bought an IP in our SMSF.
http://www.somersoft.com/forums/showthread.php?t=54235
house keeper
When the banks check your serviceability they look at your income and your own regular contributions into super.
Leverage with STGeorge is 72% and yes their interest rate is the same as standard variable so it's 0.7% higher than the pro rate.
IMO buying property in a SMSF is an...