Debt recycling suits some households, not all. These guides compare it with the other ways to clear a home loan and build wealth, and say when the other option wins.
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A licensed broker who says no when it does not fit is more useful than one who says yes to everything. Start with the first two guides, then compare the path you are weighing.
Two guides that decide whether debt recycling is worth doing at all.
Eight signs to wait or walk away.
Read more →GuideThe hurdle rate that decides it.
Read more →Options that clear non-deductible debt with no investment risk.
A risk-free saving at your loan rate.
Read more →GuideTax-free, flexible and certain.
Read more →GuideClearing the home loan first and investing afterwards is one of the simplest wealth plans.
Read more →GuideA refinance is often the first step in debt recycling, but not always.
Read more →GuideCredit cards, car loans and buy now pay later usually cost more than any investment can reliably earn.
Read more →Building wealth without, or alongside, recycling the home loan.
Same surplus, two routes into the market.
Read more →GuideConcessional tax, locked away until preservation.
Read more →GuideBorrowing against the shares, not the home.
Read more →GuideRentvesting means renting where you live and owning an investment property elsewhere.
Read more →GuideWhen you move out and rent your first home, the interest on its original loan generally becomes deductible.
Read more →GuideOpposite aims, and what the 2026 Budget changed.
Read more →GuideInvesting through a trust: the lending side.
Read more →When the question is how to borrow, not whether.
Both can hold the borrowing you use to invest.
Read more →GuideWhich debts to clear first and why.
Read more →GuideWhich debt to attack first.
Read more →Put your own numbers through each path.
The return an investment needs to cover its after-tax interest cost.
Open calculator →CalculatorYour monthly surplus two ways, side by side over the years you choose.
Open calculator →CalculatorKeep cash in the offset or recycle it: the trade in dollars.
Open calculator →CalculatorWhether rolling cards and personal loans into the home loan saves or costs you.
Open calculator →Tell us about your loan and what you want to achieve. We will tell you what the lending side looks like, and when debt recycling is not the right fit.
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3. Understood my needs to setup debt recycling to allow tax structuring.
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