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So they shut the door on property in super

Not The Farm.

The one property your super fund can buy, borrow for, and let you live on.

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Getting in 19 chapters 42 pages Australian edition 2026–27 Ebook · Audiobook · Calculator

Farmland in a genuine primary production business is business real property. Your fund can buy it, borrow for it, and buy it from your own parents.

If the farm qualifies, a member can live in the farmhouse. There is no other circumstance in Australian superannuation where that's true.

What's inside

  • The two-hectare rule, and why it's the most valuable rule in the series
  • What counts as a farm, and what's just a hobby
  • Buying it from your parents — duty concessions and CGT relief
  • The two leases: the land, and the house
  • Succession, and keeping it in the family

How it's laid out

Part oneYes, you actually can
Part twoThe money
Part threeThe family farm
Part fourRunning it
Part fiveThe finish line

The honest bit

Every handbook in this series shows you where the strategy loses, not just where it wins. If the numbers don't beat leaving your money alone, the book says so plainly and shows you the comparison. That's the whole point of them.

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