Moneymakeover Approaching retirement, sell rental now?

tennisfan2025

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Your age: 58
Your spouse's age: 61

Number and age of children: 2 adults, both working abroad in career jobs

Income and expenditure
Annual gross income from employment or profession: €20k (part-time)
Annual gross income of spouse/partner: €35k (part-time)

Monthly take-home pay: 3400 plus 1800 rental income

Type of employment - Paye Employees
Employer type: private, part time jobs

In general are you:
(a) spending more than you earn, or
(b) saving? Saving

Summary of Assets and Liabilities
Family home value: €550k plus
Mortgage on family home: 0

Cash: €220k (mostly An Post products, one PTSB account)
Company shares/funds : 89k (via Irish Life / Aviva) 5k personal shares (dabbling on Trading 212)
Buy to Let Property value: €350k plus
Buy to let Mortgage: 0

Other borrowings – car loans/personal loans etc - None

Do you pay off your full credit card balance each month? Yes

Pension information

Value of pension fund: 220k (mine) with lumpsum option
partner will get approx €20k pa from ex employer via DB pension when he reaches 65 (4 years), AVC 80k, plus we will both get full state pensions.

Buy to let properties
Value: €350k
Rental income per year: €19,200 gross
Rough annual expenses other than mortgage interest : 500

What specific question do you have or what issues are of concern to you?

Our wonderful long term tenants have served notice on our Dublin rental (Nov 2025) and we think this is a good time to sell it. It is an old cottage and will start needing work, plus the possible new laws next year worry us. But we don't know what to do with the 300 plus that we will have (after CGT). For example, can we put it into a joint PRSA and buy an annuity at a later stage? Or should be invest in more shares? It's a lovely problem to have, but it is a bit overwhelming. As you can see from above, we are fairly income 'poor' but due to redundancies in the past, where we saved the monies, we are fairly asset 'rich'. Any advice would be gratefully considered! Thanks.
 
Income and expenditure
Annual gross income from employment or profession: €20k (part-time)
Annual gross income of spouse/partner: €35k (part-time)

Monthly take-home pay: 3400
Are you sure about this €3.4K net?
Using this calculator it should be more like €4.1K as far as I can see?


Are you on joint assessment and are your tax credits correct? Are either/both of you making pension or other payments via payroll?
plus 1800 rental income
Rental income per year: €19,200 gross
How does €19.2K p.a. gross become €1.8K p.m. net?
Doesn't sound right.
For example, can we put it into a joint PRSA and buy an annuity at a later stage?
There's no such thing as a joint PRSA and you'll be restricted on how much you can put into a pension and get full tax relief by your annual income and age related tax relief percentages:
Buy to let properties
Value: €350k
But we don't know what to do with the 300 plus that we will have (after CGT).
Are you sure about the rough CGT calculations here?
 
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We make full pension contributions (30% for me and even more I think for OH) which brings the monthly income down to about 3400 monthly. Our credits are correct.

The CGT will be about €50k (we benefit from that rule if you bought in 2013 and kept property for 7 plus years. We have to pay 50% CGT next year and 60% in 2027 etc (sliding scale). Another reason to sell!

The rental income is 1.3 net pcm. 1.8 is a typo. Good spot!
 
We make full pension contributions (30% for me and even more I think for OH)
Have you maximised your tax relieved pension contributions for 2024? If not then you can still do so before the self assessment deadline in October/November 2025.

I would be inclined to sell the rental property (as @Leper says, you don't need the hassle of being landlords in your retirement) and invest the net proceeds in a diversified basket of good quality shares. Or maybe one or two diversified conglomerates.
 
would be inclined to sell the rental property (as @Leper says, you don't need the hassle of being landlords in your retirement) and invest the net proceeds in a diversified basket of good quality shares. Or maybe one or two diversified conglomerates.
thanks Clubman. That is very helpful. We will look into Berk Hathaway - what is the difference between A & B?
 
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