Weighing up the pros and cons

With the potential from commercial property as a long-term asset class coming back on to investors’ radars, is now a good time for the Treasury to have another look at the borrowing limits for commercial property purchase within SIPPs and SSASs? Such a move could certainly inspire some of the tens of millions of pounds of pension money currently sat in cash into working more productively for clients, and for the taxman who benefits from rising transaction levels. Prior to A-Day in 2006, an investor wishing to buy a commercial property could borrow a maximum of 75% of the value. The ru...