News : Property

Property, Retirement, Strategy

SMSFs warned on retail property sector

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) involved in retail should use extra caution about using their SMSF to buy their business premises due to concerns about falling income returns, a specialist commercial property lender has said.

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Investments, Property

SMSFs continue to invest in direct property

Despite reports of SMSF property allocations dropping, trustee demand for and investment in the asset class have continued via the fractional investing channel.

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Investments, Property

Property allocations to continue to drop

SMSFs are reducing exposure to property in their portfolio asset allocations, reflecting wider trends in the property downturn in the Sydney and Melbourne markets, new analysis has found.

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Compliance, Property, Strategy

ATO to keep close tabs on property sole purpose

There may be no general prohibition against SMSFs investing in property development, but given the regulatory rules, it is very difficult for SMSFs to maintain compliance, a lawyer has warned.

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Property, Strategy

Market ripe to transfer, acquire business premises

Specialist commercial property lender Thinktank Group has said market conditions are attractive for small-to-medium size enterprises (SME) to acquire their own premises, commercial or industrial, via their SMSF.

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ATO, Property

Advisers should fend off property spruikers

Property spruikers are targeting the retirement savings of SMSF trustees struggling to enter the housing market by promoting the purchase of property through an SMSF and advisers must act to discourage this behaviour, according to the ATO.

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