REAL ESTATE IN RETIREMENT PLANS

The law allows your qualified plan or IRA to own just about any kind of real estate. You can invest directly in property: single family and multi-unit homes, co-ops, condos, apartment buildings, even improved or unimproved land. You can invest indirectly in real estate investment trusts. If you buy a property for your IRA, the income and appreciation normally builds up tax-free until you start to take withdrawals.

This is a source of money for real estate investing yet untapped for the most part.