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Why the lender stops at 55%
The Mississauga building above: $17.9M price, $965,484 NOI. Lender: 65% LTV maximum, 1.30× minimum DSCR, 5.75% rate, 25-year amortization.
- By value, 65% LTV allows $11,635,000.
- By income, the debt service can be at most $965,484 ÷ 1.30 = $742,680 a year — which carries a loan of $9,902,047.
- The DSCR test binds: the loan is $9.90M, only 55.3% of the price. Equity required: $7,997,953.
- Cash flow after debt service is $222,804, a 2.79% cash-on-cash return — below the 5.39% cap rate.
La lecciónAt today's rates many GTA industrial deals are income-constrained, not value-constrained. Budget equity on the DSCR loan, not the headline LTV.