Byline: Tim Lemke, THE WASHINGTON TIMESIt's been a great summer for anyone who's invested in real estate stocks. Shares of most prominent real estate investment trusts, or REITs, have climbed an average of 20 percent in the past three months, as investors have turned to stocks they ...
For most of my post college life, I've had a larger exposure to real estate over stocks. I needed a place to live so I figured it was better to pay down a mortgage than to pay someone rent as soon as I mustered up the down payment. Further, I worked in Equities my entire career...
Real estate is something that you can physically touch and feel—it's a tangible good and, therefore, for many investors, feels more real. For many decades this investment has generated consistent wealth and long-term appreciation for millions of people. Depending on the location of your real ...
One reason for the impressive returns and perks of real estate investing vs. stocks is that it’s harder to invest in real estate.The barriers to entry are higher, which cuts both ways.It makes for great opportunities for investors with plenty of money and experience, but it also makes it...
Over the past 60 years, stocks have historically returned ~10% a year compared to ~4% for real estate. You can also go onmargin to boost your stock returns. However, I don't recommend this strategy. If your stock is declining your broker will force you to liquidate holdings to come up...
Real estate can be an effective way for investors to hedge against inflation and potentially generate big returns. Buying physical property can be difficult and expensive for individual investors, but those investors can easily invest in real estate by buying shares of real estate investment trusts,...
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Thehousing bubbleand banking crisis of 2008 brought a decline in value for investors in the real estate and the stock markets—and the COVID-19 crisis is doing it all over again, albeit for different reasons. Still, it's important to remember that stocks and real estate have very different...
If you could choose one asset to invest in for the long term, what would it be? For years,Gallup has asked investors exactly that question, and since 2013 the most popular answer has been the same: real estate. This year, those who favor buying property were the clear plurality with 36...
Sentiment around the hard-hit commercial real-estate market has slowly improved with growing optimism around the Fed’s eventual pivot to rate cuts. Its short-term policy rate has been at a near two-decade high for more than a year. Related: Fed’s Powell puts September rate cut on...