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ARTICLE · 12 DECEMBER 2019

Rather A Loan Than A Gift

Soaring prices of houses has made owning a first home a virtual impossibility for our children.

SingaporeFinance and Banking

Soaring prices of houses has made owning a first home a virtual impossibility for our children.

They have no choice but to continue to live with us.

Feeling their frustration, it is a growing trend nowadays for parents to lend a helping hand in the purchase of their child's first home.

Whether help from parents come in the form of a loan or an outright gift will have different legal implications.

A loan of money must be repaid.

A gift, on the other hand, does not. The gift may be a gift of cash (cash gift) for the child to buy the house or a gift of a house itself (house gift) bought directly in the child's name.

"Debt is one person's liability,
But another person's asset."

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