Sunday, November 04, 2007

Putting Property into Pensions

What is exciting about Property Pensions is that people will be able to borrow money and put in residential property via their Self-Invested Personal Pension for the first time. Given the property market roar in recent years, this could be very profitable.

The manner that Property Pensions work is as follows:

When you purchase a property within your pension you get a terms reduction of 22-40% on your investing from the government.

In other words you are able to get a discount of up to 40% off the property purchase price. On top of this you are able to avoid paying income or capital additions tax on your new property.

Under the new regulations you are allowed to set your ain home within your Self-Invested Personal Pension. However, this is less moneymaking that doing so with a buy-to-let property.

The ground for this is that first homes are already exempt from capital additions tax and you are improbable to earn an income from your home which could be taxed.

A short letter of cautiousness however:

Although Property Pensions could be a very manner to salvage and put money, make retrieve that as with any other investment. Diversification is indispensable to enable you to manage your risk. Therefore make see investment in property, but ideally put in something else as well.

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