SMSF Property Ban: Impact Bigger Than Thought

When we wrote recently that the SMSF property borrowing ban may not be the end of the story, the push for a new-build exemption was already underway. Now some fresh numbers have landed, and they make that debate even more interesting. First, an important distinction. SMSFs have not been banned from owning residential property. The […]

SMSFs hit record high

Something interesting is happening in super. Australians established 52,020 new self-managed super funds in the 2025-26 financial year, the highest number ever established in a single financial year, taking the total number of SMSFs to a record 680,301. And these aren’t small numbers when you look at the super system as a whole. Australia had […]

The SMSF Property Ban May Not Be the End of the Story

You might remember that we recently wrote about the new rules restricting SMSFs from borrowing to buy residential property. Those rules started on 10 August 2026 and they are now law. In simple terms, an SMSF generally can no longer enter into a new limited recourse borrowing arrangement (LRBA) to buy an ordinary residential investment […]