Three reasons people will use their pension to buy property from next April

Jonathan Stapleton thinks 'freedom and choice' could trigger a buy to let boom

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Jonathan Stapleton argues many people will use the new pension freedoms to buy residential property from next April. Here are his three reasons why.

From April 6 next year, the new pension freedoms will allow anyone over the age of 55 to take their whole pension as a lump sum - giving millions of defined contribution savers the flexibility to i...

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