Simon Heawood: The property conversation you should have with clients

Giving advice on residential property investments is a tricky business for financial advisers and wealth managers of all stripes. Most will have first-hand experience of the client whose unshakeable attachment to bricks and mortar has thrown an otherwise carefully planned and risk-managed portfolio into disarray. Few investments have outperformed UK residential property on a risk-adjusted basis in recent decades - and none has attracted as much capital. It is little wonder then that almost 50% of people consider property to be the best way to save for retirement, according to recent data...