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1. Yes, that's significantly less. I guess a strategy could be if you want to sell a property to a buyer is that you sell them all the units in the Unit Trust & get the trustee to be changed to themselves or a company they control, then you could split the stamp duty savings 50/50 to benefit...

Thanks for your response Terry. Could you please elaborate more on the 2 points quoted above? Anything else besides legal ownership staying the same? Point 4: Would the stamp duty be less by transferring units in the Unit Trust rather than selling property to new owner? Point 5: Could you...

I've got some questions about Unit Trusts owning investment property in them, mainly from a tax perspective: 1. How does it work with the borrowing when a Unit Trust buys a property? Does the unit holders borrow the money, the property gets mortgaged & the interest get charged to the unit...