Is using an SMSF for property a million-dollar mistake?

Update: 2025-09-25

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A generation of investors have used Self Managed Super Funds for property investment, but steadily the numbers have changed in this area with higher rates, higher upfront costs and a growing realisation it is not the deal it used to be.

Financial adviser James O'Reilly from NorthEast Wealth joins Associate Editor - Wealth, James Kirby, in this episode.

In today's show, we cover:

SMSF property - A sub-optimal performer
Survivorship bias - Why SMSF property may lose in the future
Would you be better in a standard super fund?
The limits of compulsory super rules

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