It would be tough not to have taken notice of the recent volatile nature of the equity markets of all descriptions (and nationalities) over these last couple of weeks. If the DOW isn’t dropping 400 + points as it is today, it is adding 400+ as it did last Thursday. Like many I have money in the markets, but I am an investor in real estate. These more recent stock market fluctuations both here and abroad remind me, yet again, of why this is so.
Accepting a couple of instances in modern times, and perhaps most notably the “instance” that occurred in this country from roughly 2000-2010, real estate has proven a much more predictable, I believe more productive and certainly less stressful form of investment relative to something like stocks/equities. Further, most of us (adults) in this country have invested in real estate at some time or other, via our own housing purchases. For this reason alone, I feel it is worth spending more time than average both monitoring this countries real estate market, as well as trying to figure out where values might be heading next as we all push forward in these very uncertain economic times.
As a person who makes his living in real estate, I have been keeping a fairly close watch on this investment class (generally) for most of the last 20 years. I do this sort of thing as a matter of happenstance. So, to the extant that I might be able to turn some of my more recent studies/musings/contemplation’s regarding this market into something that approaches value, the effort made here should be advantageous for me. Should any one else choose to spend time reviewing some of this subject matter with me, with luck you may get something out of it as well.
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