On the market: Self-invested pensions and property investment

In the ever changing face of self-invested pensions one thing has remained constant, is the use of property as an investment in SIPP and SSAS. There are many issues when looking at investing in property and many transactions fall through because these were not identified at the outset. I talk to advisers about these issues all the time and there really are very few transactions that would be classed as simple or standard. The first issue is determining if the property is allowable at all, as with many things regarding SIPPs, just because it is allowable by HMRC doesn't mean all pro...