Self Administered Pensions & Property

Have ran a search on this forum for this topic but can't seem to find anything. Was wondering if there is any documentation out there about using a self administered pension fund to invest in property. There are surely restrictions on the level of involvement that can be had with the property. Does anybody have any reference material that is useful. (Have tried google)

Cheers for any suggestions.

Newby said:

Have ran a search on this forum for this topic but can't seem to find anything.

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What about or ?

There are a good few brokers who specialise in self administered (property) pensions.

Here's a few

Liberty Asset Management
Oregan Financial Services
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and of course our friend Ferguson & Associates

Newby said:

There are surely restrictions on the level of involvement that can be had with the property.

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There are. The property must be at arm's length from you. Which effectively means you can have no connection with the property in terms of the purchase or the ongoing rent. Your self-admin pension can't buy property from: -

• yourself
• your spouse
• family members
• your company
• anyone connected to you

Once the property has ben purchased, you can't rent it to any of the above either. Revenue really do want self-admin investments to be completely unconnected to you, so that the object of the investment is just that - investment - and not driven by some other side benefits.

A wise old pensioneer trustee once gave me a neat rule of thumb regarding the many schemes that people occasionally dream up - "Can I sell my house to a shell company and then get my self-admin pension to buy it from that?" etc. -

If you have to ask, the answer is probably No.

Thanks for all the replies, everyone.